Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swine
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Issues for a Healthy Pork Industry
Author: Agricultural Medicine
Author: Kelley J. DonhamPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118647203
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Newly updated, Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational Health, Safety, and Prevention, Second Editionis a groundbreaking and comprehensive textbook and reference for students and practitioners of public health, and professionals in the field of rural agricultural occupational health and safety. The book introduces specific occupational and environmental health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and rural residents, and provides a roadmap to establishing sustainable worker and public health support in agricultural communities. Responding to reader demand, Agricultural Medicine, Second Edition now features more case studies, key point summaries, and new international perspective chapters comparing North American health and agricultural practices to those in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and South America. Agricultural health and safety engages a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals, veterinarians, safety professionals, engineers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and psychologists, for whom this book serves as an essential resource.
Pork Industry Handbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982827222
Category : Pork industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fully updated for the 2010 edition, The Pork Industry Handbook is the premier reference for modern American pork production with more than 270 science-based and cutting-edge articles for pork producers and related industries. Available as a hardbound, two-book set, the handbook includes 1,600+ pages produced by swine experts at Purdue University and 18 other land-grant universities, nine state pork boards, and the National Pork Board, in cooperation with the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence and pork checkoff program. Nearly 500 editors and reviewers were involved in the project. Use the handbook to get the most out of your investment by accessing the latest information on production and management systems, business and financial management, and facilities and equipment information. Improve your rate of gain with the current research on breeding and genetics, swine nutrition and health, reproduction, manure management, and pork quality. Contents include: Production and Management Systems, Business Management, Human Resources, Swine Health, Animal Behavior and Welfare Issues, Breeding and Genetics, Swine Nutrition, Reproduction, Facilities and Equipment, Environmental Stewardship, Marketing, Pork Quality, Pork Safety, Youth Projects, Statistics, Worker Health & Safety.
The National Poultry Improvement Plan
Author: Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Author: Barry EstabrookPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A Splendid Table Staff Book Pick of the Year "Estabrook, a reporter of iron constitution and persistence, has dug deep into the truth about the American pork industry without losing his sense of humor and humanity." —Christopher Kimball, Wall Street Journal In Pig Tales, New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook turns his attention to the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on personal experiences raising pigs as well as sharp investigative instincts, Estabrook covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He shows how these intelligent creatures are all too often subjected to lives of suffering in confinement and squalor, sustained on a drug-laced diet just long enough to reach slaughter weight. But Estabrook also reveals how it is possible to raise pigs responsibly and respectfully, benefiting producers and consumers—as well as some of the top chefs in America. Provocative, witty, and deeply informed, Pig Tales is bound to spark conversation at dinner tables across America.
The Pork Industry
Author: David G. TopelPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"Text ... assembled from the proceedings of a national conference [held at Iowa State University Oct. 23-25, 1967]"
Global Meat
Author: Bill WindersPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262537737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues. Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread across the globe. Millions of acres of land are now used for pastures, feed crops, and animal waste reservoirs. Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers' rights, and the treatment of animals. Three themes emerge from their discussions: the role of government and corporations in shaping the structure of the global meat industry; the paradox of simultaneous rising meat production and greater food insecurity; and the industry's contribution to social and environmental injustice. Contributors address such specific topics as the dramatic increase in pork production and consumption in China; land management by small-scale cattle farmers in the Amazon; the effect on the climate of rising greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raised for meat; and the tensions between economic development and animal welfare. Contributors Conner Bailey, Robert M. Chiles, Celize Christy, Riva C. H. Denny, Carrie Freshour, Philip H. Howard, Elizabeth Ransom, Tom Rudel, Mindi Schneider, Nhuong Tran, Bill Winders
Issues in Food and Health: 2011 Edition
Author: Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
ISBN: 1464966745
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Issues in Food and Health / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Food and Health. The editors have built Issues in Food and Health: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Food and Health in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Food and Health: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
China's Volatile Pork Industry
Author: Fred GalePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477651032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
With China's emergence as a new source of potential demand for U.S.pork exports, it is important for U.S.farmers, business leaders, and policymakers to understand the volatile nature of China's pork industry. Prices, hog inventories, and pork output in China fluctuate from year to year in response to various factors that influence the market, and China's imports of pork tend to rise when Chinese hog prices are high. Extensive policy intervention by the Chinese government has contributed to consolida�tion in the country's pork industry but has not stabilized the market. Imported pork is becoming more competitive in China as Chinese pork production costs rise and animal disease outbreaks, environmental threats, and food safety concerns constrain growth of China's hog industry.
Author: Brenda Lynn Boetel