Job satisfaction and animal welfare at slaughter: A survey of Official Veterinarians in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland by Imogen O’Connor, Kelly Gouveia

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THE STORY OF SLAUGHTERING COWS IN SURAH AL-BAQARAH by Nur Afiyah

“…Then the case of finding the body went viral, and the Israelites accused each other of being confused about finding the culprit. After that, they asked Moses to solve the case; the order came down for the Israelites to slaughter a cow. …”
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Evaluation of beef supply based on hot carcass data: the case of burdur province by Cevat Sipahi, Ahmet Cumhur Akın, Aykut Asım Akbaş

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Risk Factors for Bacterial Contamination of Bovine Meat during Slaughter in Ten Indonesian Abattoirs by Diyantoro, Dhandy Koesoemo Wardhana

“…Provision of beef meat which does not exceed the maximum microbial contamination limit is expected to meet the requirements to obtain safe, healthy, wholesome, and halal beef. …”
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Une illusion de joie dans beaucoup de souffrances : en finir avec la « fête épique » by Philippe Haugeard

“…The texts which serve to found this reading nevertheless give another image of the war: if it can provide moments of joy, it is punctually, and this joy is never that of killing or slaughtering. …”
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Rotation des postes, assignation temporaire et impact des absences dans une usine d’abattage et de transformation du porc by Anne Falardeau, Nicole Vézina

“…A further goal of the intervention was to understand how TR and job rotation are interdependent. In the porcine slaughterhouse concerned, the slaughter department workers had managed to set up a very complex job rotation system designed to maximize the possibility for changes in the rhythm and variation in the performance of working gestures, so as to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. …”
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Meta-analysis of carcass and meat characteristics of young or super young steers and of different sexual conditions finished in confinement by S. A. Jappe, R. K. Muniz Júnior, J. S. Teixeira, R. F. Pacheco

“…Uncastrated steers had higher slaughter weight, hot and cold carcass weight and rib eye area, while castrated steers demonstrated greater thickness of subcutaneous fat in the carcass and meat with higher marbling score. …”
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Des céréales et du lait au Sahara et au Sahel, de l’épipaléolithique à l’âge des métaux by Christian Dupuy

“…Several documented sources demonstrate this: figurative milk-producing female animals and milking scenes in Saharan rock art, slaughtering of young calves and kids in the Libyan desert, fat from cow’s milk preserved inside potsherds found in the Tadrart Akoukas.…”
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Alimentation élitaire dans la moyenne vallée de la Loire autour de l'an Mil by Gaëtan Jouanin, Aurélia Borvon, Chloé Genies, Anaïs Berrier

“…Based on a zooarchaeological corpus from five high-status sites located in the middle Loire valley, this paper aims to confirm or relativise the criterious traditionally used to identify food habits of elites in the end of "premier Moyen Âge". …”
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Oxidative Stability and Quality Parameters of Veal During Ageing by Mateja Lušnic Polak, Mojca Kuhar, Iva Zahija, Lea Demšar, Tomaž Polak

“…The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of the ageing period (1, 7, 14, and 21 days) on the quality parameters, sensory attributes, and oxidative stability of loins (longissimuss lumborum muscle) obtained from twelve Simmental calves less than 8 months old and slaughtered in a commercial processing plant. …”
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Decoupling and Collaboration: An Intelligent Gateway-Based Internet of Things System Architecture for Meat Processing by Jun Liu, Chenggang Zhou, Haoyuan Wei, Jie Pi, Daoying Wang

“…To address the major challenges in the meat processing industry, including device heterogeneity, model deficiencies, rapidly increasing demands for data analysis, and limitations of cloud computing, this study proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. This architecture is centered around an intelligently decoupled gateway design and edge-cloud collaborative intelligent meat inspection. …”
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Comparison of meat tenderness parameters and free amino acids content in different species: Buffalo, Yak and Maremmana beef by Michela Contò, Sabrina Di Giovanni, Giacomo Contò, Sebastiana Failla

“…Data were analyzed by ANOVA using a bifactorial model (species and aging times). …”
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Analysis of the marketing channels of an indigenous smallholder cattle breed at risk of losing genetic diversity: The case of the Lagune cattle in Benin by Maurice Cossi Ahozonlin, Joël Lopez Fianto, Jemima Alla Houessou, Luc Hippolyte Dossa

“…Finally, issues related to improving conditions for controlling cattle flows and slaughters in Ouémé department should be discussed to promote the breed and increase its commercialisation.…”
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Based on the MaxEnt model the analysis of influencing factors and simulation of potential risk areas of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) in China by Zhao Yang, Zhao Yang, Zhong Da Ren, Zhong Da Ren, Jie Wang, Wen Dong, Wen Dong

“…In the future, more variables need to be included to improve the model and provide more accurate support for prevention and control strategies.…”
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Probiotic Supplementation Alleviates Corticosterone-Induced Fatty Liver Disease by Regulating Hepatic Lipogenesis and Increasing Gut Microbiota Diversity in Broilers by Yuyan Feng, Wenqing Mei, Qu Chen, Xiaojing Chen, Yingdong Ni, Mingming Lei, Jie Liu

“…Ninety-six one-day-old green-legged chickens were divided into a control group (CON) and probiotic group (PB). …”
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis in buffaloes in Argentina: intradermoreaction, compatible lesions and bacteriological culture by Emilia Irina Martínez, Fabiana Cipolini Galarza, Nolly María Monzón, Ana Gabriela Espasandin, José Luis Konrad, Elvira Falzoni, Soledad Barandiaran, Jimena Marfil, Marcela Martínez Vivot, Diana Elina Martínez

“…Because of the lack of standardized parameters for this species, two interpretation criteria were applied, a qualitative one (reactive, when any size increase was evident in the inoculation area/non-reactive), and the quantitative one following cattle-regulated criteria (positive reaction of more than 5mm, suspicious from 3 to 5mm and negative up to 3mm). …”
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Short- But Not Long-Term Effects of Creep Feeding Provided to Suckling Piglets by María Romero, Ana Heras-Molina, María Muñoz, Luis Calvo, José Ignacio Morales, Ana Isabel Rodríguez, Rosa Escudero, Clemente López-Bote, Cristina Óvilo, Álvaro Olivares

“…Fifty-eight litters (16 from primiparous gilts and 42 from multiparous sows) were used, with a total number of 750 piglets involved in the study. …”
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Probiotic administration aggravates dextran sulfate sodium salt-induced inflammation and intestinal epithelium disruption in weaned pig by Kunhong Xie, Weidong Cai, Lingjie Li, Bing Yu, Yuheng Luo, Zhiqing Huang, Xiangbing Mao, Jie Yu, Ping Zheng, Hui Yan, Hua Li, Jun He

“…The pigs were orally challenged (DCON, DA) or not (CON, CA) with DSS from day 9 to the end of the experiment and slaughtered on day 16. …”
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Meat Production in a Feedlot System of Zebu—Holstein Steers and Heifers with Dairy Genetics: Productive and Biological Analyses by Gustavo Chamon de Castro Menezes, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, José Reinaldo Mendes Ruas, Edenio Detmann, Arismar de Castro Menezes, Diego Zanett, Lays Débora Silva Mariz, Luciana Navajas Rennó, Jarbas Miguel da Silva Junior

“…Steers presented with a greater (P<0.05) final empty body weight, carcass gain, cold carcass weight, and meat proportion in the carcass; however, heifers presented with a greater subcutaneous fat thickness (P<0.05) and, consequently, a greater (P<0.05) fat proportion in the carcass. We conclude that steers are more efficient in their productive performance than heifers in a feedlot. …”
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Bioimpedance as an alternative tool for subjective, visual scoring of a prevalent ham quality defect by Abie Sisay Mebre, Suliga Paweł, Egelandsdal Bjørg, Münch Daniel

“…This damage can again be linked to various factors, such as a low ultimate pH or a higher slaughter weight. PSE-like defects are characterized by discoloration, structural damage, and excessive moisture loss. …”
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