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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Meat production"”.
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Geographical aspects of meat production in Illinois
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Specifying the structure of the soybean-meat value chain: a taxonomical approach
… in recent years, the demand for chicken meat and pork has been growing. Moreover, this trend is expected to continue in the next decades. In the other hand, world’s soybean production is also forecasted to increase at a steady rate in the next decades. Despite that soybean is a crucial …
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Controlled Myogenic Differentiation of Mammalian Cell Lines by Temperature-Inducible Systems
… is pivotal for the advancement of cultivated meat production. Here, we introduce a novel system employing a synthetic temperature-sensitive promoter (HSP70) carrying multiple heat shock elements (HSE), whose activity can be modulated by changes in temperature, enabling precise control of the …
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Architecture Against Global Warming: A Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
… Current methods of unsustainable agricultural production including intensive monoculture crop cultivation, industrial animal agriculture and extensive food miles.This thesis proposes a Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, a facility which allows for the research of alternative …
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Exploring key barriers to consumer adoption of meat analogues : meat attachment and cultural identity
The industrial meat production system has large scale environmental impacts from depleting natural resources such as water and land and emitting dangerous greenhouse gases, while negatively affecting human health. The inefficiencies of converting plant matter into animal meat is particularly …
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Consumer perceptions and intentions towards sustainable meat consumption and lab-grown meat in Australia
… of food derived from modern livestock production methods are under increased scrutiny. Growing consumer concerns over the impacts of global meat production and consumption have led to growing demand for alternative sources of protein, and the use of production-related credence …
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Food Safe Alternatives to Methyl Bromide in Country Ham Production
Dry cured meat production is a costly and long term investment for producers. Ham mites (Tyrophagus putrescentiae) are a common pest of dry cured products and cause devastating effects, potentially nullifying producers' investments due to loss of salable product, as well as regulatory concerns. …
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FROM MUSCLE TO MEAT: MORPHO-FUNCTIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOR APPLICATIVE ASPECTS.
The transformation of muscle into meat is a biologically complex mechanism with deep implications for animal physiology, the meat industry, and food science. Understanding the morpho-functional foundations of this process -including structural, cellular, and molecular characteristics of muscle …
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Battle for the dinner table: Can vegan analogues curb America’s reliance on meat?
As demand for meat continues to rise, globally, the livestock industry produces an estimated 14.5% of manmade greenhouse gas emissions –– more than two-thirds of which come from cattle. Meat production requires roughly three-fourths of the world’s agricultural land and heavy crop and water usage, …
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
Contemporary methods of food production in the United States have become undeniably destructive ecologically. Two of the strongest symbols of that destruction from corporate industrial agriculture are CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) and monoculture crop production. This thesis seeks to …
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Decellularized Apium graveolens Scaffold for Cell Culture and Guided Alignment of C2C12 Murine Myoblast
The development of in vitro meat from validated tissue engineering techniques has emerged as a more sustainable and ethical method of meat production. To date, the expansion of cellular agriculture is believed to be dependent on four pillars: animal free scaffolds, serum free media, bioreactors and …
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Systems level investigation of the genetic basis of bovine muscle growth and development
… important trait for livestock raised for meat production. As such, there is great interest in understanding the underlying genomic architecture influencing muscle growth and development. In spite of this, relatively little is known about the genes or biological processes regulating bovine …
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Analysis of the effects of sire and age on wool quality traits in Romney ewes
Higher prices for sheep meat compared to strong wool have caused dual purpose sheep breeding objectives to align with meat production. The resulting lack of focus on wool breeding has resulted in reduction of the quality and value of strong wool. This dissertation examines the results of a wool …
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Veganism & the Vegan Market in Iceland. Is there a prospective for a vegan restaurant in Iceland?
… lot more from the earth than we give back. The meat industry is a strong factor in this degradation of the earth. Meat production is unmaintainable for the future; it is polluting, wasteful and part of a distorted mindset that we, as humans, are dependent on consuming meat in order to live. It …
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Caractérisation phénotypique et gestion de la population de poulets locaux dans les communes de Dassa et de Toffo au Bénin
… of 663 local chickens and management technique, production and breeding aims of 97 breeders were studied in Dassa and Toffo district in Benin. Different phenotypes were identified in the study area: the chicken with normal feathering, the naked neck, the frizzle feathered the soft feathering and …
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