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The 2021 Georgia poultry plant accident was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 28, 2021, in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Six people were killed by asphyxiation [ 1 ] and at least ten were injured when a liquid nitrogen leak occurred inside a poultry processing plant owned by Foundation Food Group.
Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]
Processing grains for feed is aimed at getting the easiest digestible grains to maximize starch availability, thus increasing the energy supply. [22] Hutjens (1999) reported that milk performance was significantly better when the cattle were fed with ground corn. A study compared the digestibility of various corn particle sizes and distribution ...
A fire overnight at a Tyson Foods poultry plant in Camilla, Georgia, killed one person and injured several others, the company said in a statement on Friday. Tyson, the biggest U.S. meat company ...
[12] [13] [14] New Forest stallions, when not in their breeding work, take part on the annual round-ups, working alongside mares and geldings, and compete successfully in many disciplines. [15] [16] There are drawbacks to natural management, however. One is that the breeding date, and hence foaling date, of any given mare will be uncertain.
A 3-year-old gelding. A gelding is a castrated male horse or other equine, such as a pony, donkey or a mule. The term is also used with certain other animals and livestock, such as domesticated camels. [1] By comparison, the equivalent term for castrated male cattle would be steer (or bullock), and wether for sheep and goats.
Food and biological process engineering is a discipline concerned with applying principles of engineering to the fields of food production and distribution and biology. It is a broad field, with workers fulfilling a variety of roles ranging from design of food processing equipment to genetic modification of organisms.
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.