GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bioaccumulation, Antibiotics, Disconnection
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Scientific animal management: goal hasn"t changed, reduce length of time for maturation, reduced considerably over the past decades, reducing time to slaughter is related to increasing the body weight, steroids, food, aggressive. Results: economies of scale: larger operations- operation is getting bigger. Very large schools, hospitals, retail centers because they are all based upon that scale: increased input: animals, but bred those animals. Self-sustaining: increasing amount of livestock, agribusiness: development of industrial agricultural economy, control every element, taking food and processing it, retail: selling to consumer. Quality: urban consumers aren"t thinking about food more concerned about price. Human health, and the way that we live our lives. Treatment of animals has impact on quality of food. Emerged in sheep, jumped from one species into another to the human species. Chicken and pig production facilities: confined conditions with the light on. Live for 6 months before they are slaughtered.
