ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Meat Industry, Selective Breeding, Meat Packing Industry
30 Nov 2016
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Growing demand for meat : new breeds and feeds. Consolidation of the meat industry and the emergence of vertically-integrated corporate giants. In pre-industrial society, over 80% of people lived in rural areas. By 1850, for the first time in world history, more people in a country - great. Britain - lived in cities than rural areas. Robert bakewell (1726-1795) - a farmer, transformed sock husbandry; trained other breeders. Bakewell was one of the first farmers to breed both sheep and cattle for meat instead of just for wool and work. Bred cattle and sheep cattle for the butcher (heavy in the joints that yielded the most meat, quality of flesh and fat. Cattle were machines for turning meat into money . Methodical artificial selection and inbreeding to fix desirable traits. In early 1800"s hubback the prize bull - an ideal ox - toured england in specially constructed carriage.
