Consumers, Meat and Animal Products: Policies, Regulations and Marketing

Centner Terence J

Consumers, Meat and Animal Products: Policies, Regulations and Marketing - Oxon Routledge 2019 - pages 232 - Earthscan food and agriculture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781138365797 (hbk)

2018054374


Meat industry and trade.
Animal products.
Agricultural Marketing (R-52)

TS1955 / .C46 2019

338.1/76 CEN