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Consumers, meat and animal products : policies, regulations and marketing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Centner, Terence J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Earthscan food and agriculture.
Subjects:
Meat industry and trade.
Animal products.
Food animals > Feeding and feeds.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Safety and the industry
  • Introduction
  • Providing safe products and food safety
  • The meat industry
  • Part II: Concerns about animal production facilities
  • Producing beef, dairy, and pork products
  • The production of chickens
  • Wild and farm-raised seafood
  • The humane treatment of food animals
  • Providing animals sufficient space
  • Part III: Consumer information on inputs
  • Objecting to antibiotics
  • Controversies with hormones
  • Health concerns with beta agonist feed additives
  • Pesticides used in animal production
  • Selective breeding and animal cloning
  • Labeling genetically engineered plants and animals
  • Part IV: Marketing and social issues
  • Providing information on production practices and inputs
  • Organic products
  • Locally grown products
  • Animal waste management
  • Nuisances and product disparagement
  • Conclusion.