EESB16H3 Lecture Notes - Cockfight, Meat Industry, Handmark
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Past 40 years, world meat production has more than double (in millions tons: in 2004: 7% produced is sheep, goat, duck, buffalo, yak, etc: since 1961, world meat production per person, has almost doubled (from. Latest highest increase seen in developing countries, but rapid growth for meat production per person has been seen in industrial countries much earlier than developing. Industrial countries started increase meat in gross amounts decades earlier than developing countries did. Eating animal products in high saturated fat and cholesterol is linked to cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. Factory farm conditions can spread e. coli, salmonella, and food-borne pathogens. Creutzfeldt-jaakob disease, the human variant of mad cow disease, has killed at least 150 people. Originated from red jungle fowl: domesticated in india, 3200 bc, domesticated in china, 1400 bc, popular for cock fighting, religious rituals first. The natural habitat of chicken is the forest.