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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 ...
In economics, the meat industry is a fusion of primary (agriculture) and secondary (industry) activity and hard to characterize strictly in terms of either one alone. The greater part of the meat industry is the meat packing industry – the segment that handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as ...
Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption. Bushmeat represents a primary source of animal protein and a cash-earning commodity in poor and rural communities of humid tropical forest regions of the world. [1][2] The numbers of animals killed and traded as bushmeat in the 1990s in West and Central Africa were ...
Pork. Pork belly cut, showing layers of muscle and fat. A pig being slow-roasted on a rotisserie. Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus). It is the second-most commonly consumed meat worldwide, [1] with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE.
Beef cattle. 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 ...
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals who are raised for consumption, and sometimes used to refer solely to farmed ruminants, such ...
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 word beef is from the Latin word bōs, [1] in contrast to cow which is from Middle English cou (both words have the same Indo-European root *gʷou-). [2]This is one example of the common English dichotomy between the words for animals (with largely Germanic origins) and their meat (with Romanic origins) that is also found in such English word-pairs as pig/pork, deer/venison, sheep/mutton ...