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Many aspects of the raising of animals for meat have become industrialized, even many practices more associated with smaller family farms, e.g. gourmet foods such as foie gras. [3] [4] The production of livestock is a heavily vertically integrated industry where the majority of supply chain stages are integrated and owned by one company ...
Meat production and trade substantially increase risks for infectious diseases , including of pandemics, whether though contact with wild and farmed animals, or via husbandry's environmental impact. [97] [98] For example, avian influenza from poultry meat production is a threat to human health. [99]
The following article lists the world's largest producers of meat. Global meat production has increased rapidly over the past 50 years. According to Our World in Data, meat production has more than quintupled since 1961, reaching around 361 million tonnes in 2022. [1] The most popular meat globally is poultry, followed by pork, beef and mutton.
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (Bos taurus). Beef can be prepared in various ways; cuts are often used for steak, which can be cooked to varying degrees of doneness, while trimmings are often ground or minced, as found in most hamburgers. Beef contains protein, iron, and vitamin B12.
A young bull of the Blonde d'Aquitaine breed. Japanese wagyu bull on a farm north of Kobe. Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or almost mature cattle is mostly known as beef. In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf operations ...
The meat industryhas been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[1] Outbreaks of the virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industryand the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected dozens of plants, leading to closures of some factories and disruption of others, and posed a significant ...
www.smithfieldfoods.com. Smithfield Foods, Inc., is an American pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia. It operates as an independent subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate WH Group. [4][a] Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and ...
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.