More than meat: contributions of livestock systems beyond meat production

Commonwealth contributions and British requirement of meat.

Commonwealth contributions to the British diet 77 coast, where irrigation is available. These will be the sites of piggeries, where the grain sorghum will be fed to outdoor pigs. It is intended that each unit shall carry some 200 breeding sows. The number of units which will finally be developed is dependent upon experience gained with the first experimental units and on the future trend in coa...

Meat and Meat Products

Testing the Integration of U.S.–Canadian Meat and Livestock Markets

Price transmission is a critically important issue that affects market enlargement and the unification of Canadian–U.S. agriculture. This study adopts alternative frameworks to examine the nature of cross-border integration in selected meat and livestock markets. The aim is to determine the extent to which selected meat and livestock markets transmit price signals across the international borde...

Comparison of Two Multiplex PCR Systems for Meat Species Authentication

Background: Meat species adulteration has become a problem of concern. This study aimed to compare two previously published multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) methods for meat species authentication.  Methods: The primers used in the first multiplex PCR involved species-specific reverse primer for sheep, goat, cattle, pig, and donkey with universal forward primer. In the second multiple...

Microbial challenges of poultry meat production.

Food safety and shelf-life are both important microbial concerns in relation to broiler meat production. Focus is mainly placed on the absence or control of potentially pathogenic microbes such as Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. but, from the commercial point of view, other spoilage bacteria also play a role as potential threats. Regarding food safety, the primary target should be the pr...