ANS 3934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quality Assurance, Tallow, National Pork Board
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Take an internship: strive for more than one, even if you don"t like it, it lets you know what you are and aren"t interested in. Work on finding and locking in internships early. Graduates are employable if they: understand a commodity. Know its production and value: understand food safety. For uf animal science students: food animal industry option. This specialization prepares students for the many interesting and profitable career opportunities in the animal industry: be sure to diversify your experiences. Multiple different opportunities in a variety of fields. Deal breakers for employment: unwilling to be flexible. No wanting to leave a certain location. Rigid hours: unwilling to be imaginative, not wanting to start at a bottom level job, never having had a job. Commodity organizations: american sheep industry association, national pork board. Allied industries: turning meat byproducts into new things. By-product utilization: purina dog and cat food, biodiesel from beef tallow.