Animal welfare and meat production /

• Main Authors: Gregory, Neville G., (Author), Grandin, Temple, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Animal welfare.; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.; Meat industry and trade > Quality control.; Meat Producing Animals.; Animal Slaughter.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Welfare.; Aquaculture (Animals); Abattoirs.; Aquaculture.; Auditing.; Farms.; Genetics.; Markets.; Meat.; Meat and livestock industry.; Meat production.; Meat quality.; Poultry.; Slaughter.; Stunning.
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This book presents a comprehensive coverage of the relationships and conflicts between the welfare of major food animal species and commercial needs of the meat and livestock industry. This book is comprised of 14 chapters. New contributions on animal welfare in developing countries, animal genetics...

Table of Contents:

• Animal welfare and the meat market
• Animal welfare in developing countries
• Genetics and animal welfare
• Cattle
• Sheep
• Pigs
• Poultry and rabbits
• Aquaculture
• Other species
• Livestock presentation and welfare before slaughter
• Stunning and slaughter
• Meat quality
• Implementing effective animal welfare auditing programmes / by Temple Gandin
• The future.