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    Eating Meat

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    Eating Meat and The Treatment of Animals Eating animals is part of the daily life of billions of people all over the world. Every day‚ thousands of animals are killed for the production of food for people. We have been brought up eating meat and never questioned it. It is culturally accepted even though modern livestock and poultry production (factory farming) is cruel and gives animals no other purpose for existence except for human consumption. There are particular religions which prohibit eating

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    Meat Processing

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    BASIC MEAT PROCESSING PRINCIPLES OF MEAT PRESERVATION Meat preservation is principally concerned with the application of measures to delay meat spoilage‚ which are caused by microbial‚ chemical and physical changes. Of these‚ microbial spoilage is most common. Microbes thrive in moisture and since meat is 70%-75% water‚ it spoils easily through microbial action. Meat‚ being rich source of nutrients‚ also becomes an excellent food for bacteria. Methods of meat preservation‚ however different from

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    transported are healthy. Two of those acts are The Meat Inspection Act and The Food Protection Plan of 2007. The Meat Inspection Act began the federal regulation of the poultry‚ meat‚ and egg products. A man by the name of Upton Sinclairs wrote a novel in 1906 called “The Jungle‚ which was filled with details on the unsanitary methods of Chicago’s meat-packing industry. Within months‚ the public began to demand a serious change in the meat industry. President Roosevelt sent in Labor Commissioner Charles

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    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel set at the meatpacking plants and stockyards of Chicago‚ Illinois. Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ immigrants from Lithuanian‚ decided to move to the United States to follow the “American Dream”. They settled in Chicago and started to work in Packing town. Unlike the working conditions of today‚ they encountered the worst working conditions possible‚ testing their family life and values‚ and how authority figures were there for

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    In Vitro Meat

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    Make Environmental Footprints Smaller by Investing in “Meat without Feet” With recent news in medicine being that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards‚ some believe that in vitro fertilization and stem cell research is reserved to humans. According to The Official Web Site of The Nobel Prize‚ Robert G. Edwards won the award due to his creation and advancements with in vitro fertilization‚ which now allows infertile couples to be able to conceive. This

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    NO. 1. INTRODUCTION 4 1.1. POWER MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION 5 1.1.1. WHY ENERGY EFFICIENCY? 5 1.1.2. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE? 6 1.1.3. HOW TO SAVE ENERGY? 6 1.1.4. RECYCLING 6 1.1.5. ENERGY USED IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY 6 1.1.6. IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF ELECTRICITY USE 7 i. Lighting 7 ii. Electric motor 7 iii. Electric heating 8 1.1.7. IMPROVEMENTS IN EFFICIENT FUEL USE 8 i. Selection of fuel 8 ii. Selection of boiler 8

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    Meat Processing

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    to Consider in Starting a Meat Processing Project 1. Determination‚ enthusiasm and perseverance to start a business. 2. Market for the products. 3. Sourcing‚ for raw materials‚ ingredients and packaging. 4. Availability of simple equipment and utensils. 5. Capital to start the business. 6. Personnel to attend to the processing operations. 7. Allocate time for processing. 8. Identification of product lines. Important Utensils Used in Meat Processing Knives Weighing

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    In the United States‚ the government preaches equality for all‚ while in upholding a system that discriminates against almost everyone that is not white‚ or not male. Packing prisons in the United States is second nature‚ since the presidency of Ronald Reagan‚ the populations in prisons have increase at least 400%. And when talking about the prison system in the U.S.‚ there has to be a conversation about race‚ because the prison system systematically targets people of color. U.S. soil bleeds racism

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    The Meat Works

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    In the poem "The Meat Works" by Robert Grey. A man is working in a meat works and does not like his job but it is necessary so he can make money. The purpose of this poem being written was to show that people have to sacrifices and put up with things they do not enjoy to survive. One emotion witch comes up in the meat works is despair. Robert Grey has formed a free versepoem. An example of this is "but I settled for one of the low paid jobs‚ making mince sigh the furthest end from those bellowing

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    The title of this book is called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. The length of this book is thirty-six chapters‚ the uncensored edition marking it three hundred and thirty-five pages long. Originally published on February 26‚1906‚ the uncensored issue was published in 2003 over eighty years later. This book was about a young man and women have migrated from Lithuania to Chicago in search for a better life. They soon learn that in Packingtown‚ the center of Lithuania has no jobs available and the conditions

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