Reply to Van Meerbeek and Svenning, Emery, and Springmann et al.: Clarifying assumptions and objectives in evaluating effects of food system shifts on human diets

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal and Poultry Science, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacksburg, VA 24061; rrwhite@vt.edu marybeth.hall@ars.usda.gov.
² US Dairy Forage Research Center, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Madison, WI 53706 rrwhite@vt.edu marybeth.hall@ars.usda.gov.

Comment

Robin R White et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018.

. 2018 Feb 20;115(8):E1706-E1708.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720895115. Epub 2018 Feb 12.

¹ Department of Animal and Poultry Science, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacksburg, VA 24061; rrwhite@vt.edu marybeth.hall@ars.usda.gov.
² US Dairy Forage Research Center, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Madison, WI 53706 rrwhite@vt.edu marybeth.hall@ars.usda.gov.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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