Framework for evaluating animal welfare in life cycle assessments of diets (original) (raw)
Richter, Sebastian; Schader, Christian; Frehner, Anita and Scherer, Laura (2024) Framework for evaluating animal welfare in life cycle assessments of diets. In:Book of abstracts of the 14th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food (LCA Food 2024), 08.-12.09.2024, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 114-116.
Assessing animal welfare in diet modelling is an emerging and important research topic. We provide guidance for life cycle assessment researchers by highlighting the main decision steps and the challenges and normative assumptions involved in each step, as well as by discussing solutions considering the objectives and limitations of animal welfare assessments of diets.