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90 relations: Agricultural engineering, Agricultural robot, Agriculture, Amazon basin, Animal slaughter, Avian influenza, Baby boom, Beef, Beef cattle, Beef hormone controversy, Bison, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Cattle, Conscience, Cruelty to animals, Cultured meat, Curing (food preservation), Dairy, Deer, Deforestation, Ecological farming, Ecological footprint, Econometrics, Economics, Energy consumption, Environmental full-cost accounting, Escherichia coli, Extinction, Family farm, Feed conversion ratio, Foie gras, Food industry, Foot-and-mouth disease, Goat, Gourmet, Greenhouse gas, Grinder-mixer, Groundwater, Health care, Hormone therapy, Industrialisation, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Information and communications technology in agriculture, Intensive animal farming, JBS S.A., Lamb and mutton, Land use, Leather, Livestock, ..., Manure, Marketing, Meat, Meat Industry Workers Federation, Meat inspection, Meat market, Meat packing industry, Mechanically separated meat, Natural capital, Non-renewable resource, North America, North American Meat Institute, Obesity, Organic farming, Overconsumption, Pen (enclosure), Pesticide, Pig, Pink slime, Poultry farming, Public service, Rainforest, Red meat, Rendering (animal products), Sheep, Shuanghui, Slaughterhouse, Slow Food, Steroid, Supply chain, Sustainability, Tonne, Tyson Foods, Veganism, Vegetarianism, Vertical integration, Veterinary medicine, Water pollution, Wool, Worldwatch Institute. Expand index (40 more) »
Agricultural engineering
Agricultural Engineering is the engineering discipline that studies agricultural production and processing.
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Agricultural robot
An agricultural robot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
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Animal slaughter
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock.
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Avian influenza
Avian influenza—known informally as avian flu or bird flu is a variety of influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds.
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Baby boom
A baby boom is a period marked by a significant increase of birth rate.
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle.
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Beef cattle
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production).
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Beef hormone controversy
The Beef Hormone Dispute is one of the most intractable agricultural controversies since the establishment of the World Trade Organization.
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Bison
Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Conscience
Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong.
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Cruelty to animals
Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction by omission (animal neglect) or by commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal.
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Cultured meat
Cultured meat, also called clean meat, synthetic meat or in vitro meat, is meat grown from in vitro animals cell culture instead of from slaughtered animals.
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Curing (food preservation)
Curing is any of various food preservation and flavoring processes of foods such as meat, fish and vegetables, by the addition of combinations of salt, nitrates, nitrites,.
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Dairy
A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffaloes, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption.
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Deer
Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Ecological farming
Ecological farming is recognised as the high-end objective among the proponents of sustainable agriculture.
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Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy.
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Econometrics
Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data and is described as the branch of economics that aims to give empirical content to economic relations.
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Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Energy consumption
Energy consumption is the amount of energy or power used.
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Environmental full-cost accounting
Environmental full-cost accounting (EFCA) is a method of cost accounting that traces direct costs and allocates indirect costs by collecting and presenting information about the possible environmental, social and economical costs and benefits or advantagesin short, about the "triple bottom line"for each proposed alternative.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Family farm
A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family; it is sometimes considered to be an estate passed down by inheritance.
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Feed conversion ratio
In animal husbandry, feed conversion ratio (FCR) or feed conversion rate is a ratio or rate measuring of the efficiency with which the bodies of livestock convert animal feed into the desired output.
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Foie gras
Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened.
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Food industry
The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world population.
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Foot-and-mouth disease
Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease (Aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids.
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Goat
The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Gourmet
Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, often quite rich courses.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Grinder-mixer
To process livestock feed from grain, farmers often use a type of agricultural machine called a grinder-mixer.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy or hormonal therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment.
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Industrialisation
Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
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Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
Influenza A (H1N1) virus is the subtype of influenza A virus that was the most common cause of human influenza (flu) in 2009, and is associated with the 1918 outbreak known as the Spanish Flu.
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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as A(H5N1) or simply H5N1, is a subtype of the influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species.
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Information and communications technology in agriculture
Information and communication technology in agriculture (ICT in agriculture), also known as e-agriculture, is developing and applying innovative ways to use ICTs in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture.
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Intensive animal farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.
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JBS S.A.
JBS S.A. is a Brazilian company that is the largest (by sales) meat processing company in the world, producing factory processed beef, chicken and pork, and also selling by-products from the processing of these meats.
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Lamb and mutton
Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.
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Land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Manure
Manure is organic matter, mostly derived from animal feces except in the case of green manure, which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.
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Marketing
Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
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Meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.
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Meat Industry Workers Federation
The Meat Industry Workers Federation (in Spanish: Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne, abbreviated FOIC) was a trade union of meat workers in Argentina.
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Meat inspection
Meat inspection as a crucial part of food safety measures encompasses all meaures directed towards the prevention of raw and processed meat spoilage.
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Meat market
A meat market is, traditionally, a marketplace where meat is sold, often by a butcher.
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Meat packing industry
The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
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Mechanically separated meat
Mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM) is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground beef, pork, mutton, turkey or chicken, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.
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Natural capital
Natural capital is the world's stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living organisms.
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Non-renewable resource
A non-renewable resource (also called a finite resource) is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North American Meat Institute
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) is a non-profit, industry trade association formed in 2015 from the merger of the American Meat Institute (AMI) and the North American Meat Association (NAMA).
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Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health.
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Organic farming
Organic farming is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices.
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Overconsumption
Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem.
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Pen (enclosure)
A pen is an enclosure for holding animals such as livestock or pets that are unwanted inside the house.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.
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Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.
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Pink slime
"Pink slime" (a derogatory term for lean finely textured beef or LFTB, finely textured beef, and boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef.
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Poultry farming
Poultry farming is the process of raising domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for food.
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Public service
Public service is a service which is provided by government to people living within its jurisdiction, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing provision of services.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
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Red meat
In gastronomy, red meat is commonly red when raw and a dark color after it is cooked, in contrast to white meat, which is pale in color before and after cooking.
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Rendering (animal products)
Rendering is a process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, usable materials.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Shuanghui
WH Group, formerly known as Shuanghui Group, is a privately owned Chinese meat and food processing company headquartered in Luohe, Henan, China.
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Slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse or abattoir is a facility where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food.
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Slow Food
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking.
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Steroid
A steroid is a biologically active organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific molecular configuration.
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Supply chain
A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods, Inc., also known by the public as Tyson Corporation, is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry.
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Veganism
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.
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Vertical integration
In microeconomics and management, vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company.
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Veterinary medicine
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals.
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
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Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_industry
