Due to global population growth and economic development in emerging countries, worldwide meat demand is increasing. While, livestock farming poses various problems, alternatives are attracting increasing attention. There signs that soy becoming especially popular Japan, reflecting its long cultural familiarity with soybean-based foods making it a potential model for the promotion of alternativ...

In the Global North, meat consumption is both an integral part of everyday diets and under increasing pressure to be reduced, owing its various harmful effects. There has been much research on issues that forestall less meat-dominated diets. Based interview participant observation data consumers with a wide variety relations in Finland, this article extends these discussions by framing issue as...

Changes in consumer demand for meat are part of changing life-styles caused by technical and economic developments. The increasing application of technology to procurement, manufacture and distribution has provided a range of meat products of unprecedented variety and quality. The species acceptable as meat are limited by tradition, but they are becoming increasingly interchanged as sources of ...

Many factors influence the shelf-life, color, and sensory attributes of beef. Packaging is one of those factors. There are several different types of packaging used in the meat industry, including vacuum packaging, overwrap, and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). Traditionally wholesale cuts are vacuum packaged, boxed, and sent to retailers where they cut the meat, place it on a styrofoam tra...

Protein intake is important for the maintenance of health, independence, and quality life especially older adults, yet expanding population at risk not consuming adequate levels. Notwithstanding its importance in terms dietary protein choice has major ramifications state environment climate change, with meat holding most weight environmental impact diets. To support consumers making environment...

Recent food safety issues have dramatically changed the meat scene throughout Europe. Consumer reactions are seen as the paramount driving force to change. This paper presents insights in consumer decision-making toward fresh meat and pork consumption in Belgium. It also sets forth implications and recommendations for future pork production given the increasingly stringent safety-related demand...

In the times of industrial food production, regional and traditional food articles provide an attractive alternative for people looking for unforgettable sensory impressions. Regional or traditional food, commonly recognized as palatable and healthy, is also, for many consumers, a unique, sentimental journey back to tastes from childhood times. A gradual increase of demand for this type of food...

Meat species adulteration imposes substantial concern to consumers in terms of economic loss, food allergy, religious observance, and food safety. Federal and state laws require that meat products be labeled as to the species they contain. Species substitutions, such as substitution of horse meat for beef and pork for sheep meat, have been reported in several countries (Matin, 1981). As mechani...

godina XVII (2015.) ■ siječanj-veljača ■ broj 1 ■ MESO ■ 73 INTRODUCTION Meat production makes a signicant part of the total value of agricultural production in many countries, and given it is labour-intensive, meat production contributes to the increase in employment both on farms and in entire rural areas (Ažderski et al. 2011). Cattle rearing plays an important role in landscape conservatio...