meat industry
Animal flesh business
The meat industry encompasses the businesses involved in raising, slaughtering, processing, and distributing animal flesh for human consumption.
It includes cattle ranches, hog farms, poultry operations, slaughterhouses, and meatpacking plants.
The term often appears in discussions of labor conditions, environmental impact, and animal welfare: The meat industry lobbied against the new regulations.
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- kill floorWhere animals are dispatched
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- wholesaleBulk sales to merchants
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
sheep · livestock · butchery · cold chain logistics · rendering · supermarket · deboning · food safety standards · factory farming · traceability systems · poultry · animal husbandry · export markets · halal · carbon footprint reduction · plant based · culinary traditions · curing
- food issuesfood additives, food labeling, food waste, factory farming, GMOs
- meat eatingcarnivore diet, carnivore, beef, pork, obligate carnivore
- food ethicsethical eating, veganism, ethical sourcing, vegetarianism, cruelty-free
- food politicsfood policy, food justice, food security, food insecurity, hunger
- harmful industriesbig tobacco, cigarettes, arms trade, human trafficking, ivory trade
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meat industryvegetable farming
Cultivating edible plants commercially
horticulture · crop farming · fruit farming · vertical farming · hydroponics