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A selection of uncooked red meat, pork and poultry, including beef, chicken, bacon and pork chops. Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and ...
A carnivore / ˈkɑːrnɪvɔːr /, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose nutrition and energy requirements are met by consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food, whether through predation or scavenging. [1][2]
Cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat among other names, is a form of cellular agriculture where meat is produced by culturing animal cells in vitro. [1][2][3][4][5] Cultured meat is produced using tissue engineering techniques pioneered in regenerative medicine. [6] Jason Matheny popularized the concept in the early 2000s after he co ...
Poultry (/ ˈpoʊltri /) are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers. [1] The practice of raising poultry is known as poultry farming. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens ...
The process of rechewing the cud to further break down plant matter and stimulate digestion is called rumination. [2][3] The word "ruminant" comes from the Latin ruminare, which means "to chew over again". The roughly 200 species of ruminants include both domestic and wild species. [4]
Carnivora. The extant distribution and density of Carnivora species. Carnivora (/ kɑːrˈnɪvərə / kar-NIH-vər-ə) is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
Eating. Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies. Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth.
Among birds, the hooded crow is a typical omnivore. An omnivore (/ ˈɒmnɪvɔːr /) is an animal that regularly consumes significant quantities of both plant and animal matter. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Obtaining energy and nutrients from plant and animal matter, omnivores digest carbohydrates, protein, fat, and fiber, and metabolize the nutrients and energy ...