Meat animals : growth and productivity : [proceedings]
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Meat animals : growth and productivity : [proceedings]
（NATO advanced study institutes series, ser. A . Life sciences ; v. 8）
Plenum Press, c1976
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Description
Dramatic shortfalls in crop production in various regions of the world have led some people to question the relatively inefficient use of cereal grains for feeding meat animals instead of their direct use for human food. There is no doubt, however, that meat offers a nutritionally valuable, attractive and widely accepted food, the world demand for which increases daily. Thus it is not enough simply to condemn the consumption of meat as an irresponsible extravagance; rather it is preferable to examine how the demand for meat can be met most efficiently and effectively, which requires a fundamental enquiry into how meat is 'grown'. The importance of fat, for instance, both to the growing animal and to the consumer, needs to be established in view of the 'expense' involved in its deposition by the animal and the extent to which it is discarded at many points in the chain from the slaughterhouse to the consumer.
We were aware that there existed a wealth of information on the physiology of growth which, because of its having been collected as part of investigations in many other disciplines and the inevitable communication gap, had not been incorporated into the science of animal production. Similarly there were principles and teChniques of animal husbandry which, if known in other disciplines, might enable more pertinent questions to be asked. The biochemical and physiological pathways by which animals utilise feed to produce body protein, fat and other components are intriguing problems which are receiving considerable attention.
Table of Contents
Welcome.- Welcome.- 1 What Do We Want from the Carcass?.- Discussion.- I The Efficiency of Meat-Producing Systems.- 2 The Relevance of Various Measures of Efficiency.- 3 The Influence of Reproductive Rate on the Efficiency of Meat Production in Animal Populations.- 4 The Optimum Size and Structure of Enterprise.- Discussion.- II The Efficiency of Food Conversion.- 5 Comparison of Biological Mechanisms for Conversion of Feed to Meat.- 6 Efficiencies of Energy Utilization during Growth.- 7 Efficiency of Protein Utilization.- Discussion.- III The Development of Muscle.- 8 Towards More Efficient Meat Animals: A Theoretical Consideration of Constraints at the Level of the Muscle Cell.- 9 Factors Affecting Muscle Size and Structure.- Discussion.- IV The Development of Fatty Tissue.- 10 Physiological Significance of Lipids.- 11 The Control of Fat Absorption, Deposition and Mobilization in Farm Animals.- V Endocrine Regulation.- 12 Hormonal Control of Muscle Growth.- 13 Protein-Fat Interactions.- Discussion.- VI Overall Control of Growth.- 14 The Right Size.- 15 The Central Control of Growth: Its Connection with Age-dependent Disease.- Discussion.- VII Environmental Control of Growth.- 16 Environmental Control of Growth: The Maternal Environment.- 17 The Nutritional Control of Growth.- 18 Climate and Season.- Discussion.- VIII Physiological Significance of Differences in Body Composition.- 19 The Physiological Basis of Reproductive Efficiency.- 20 Hormonal Influences on the Growth, Metabolism and Body Composition of Pigs.- 21 Observations of the Apparent Antagonism between Meat-producing Capacity and Meat Quality in Pigs.- Discussion.- IX The Technology of Producing Meat Animals.- 22 Meat Production from Ruminants.- 23 Advances in Pig Technology.- X The Use of Genetic Potential.- 24 The Choice of Selection Objectives in Meat-producing Animals.- 25 Using the World's Genetic Resources.- Discussion.- XI The Challenge of New Foods.- 26 Vegetable Protein as a Human Food - Background and Present Situation.- 27 Vegetable Protein as a Human Food - Research and Development in the National Food Research Institute.- 28 Single Cell Protein as a Feedstuff.- Discussion.- XII Final Perspectives.- Final Perspectives.- Participants.
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