"Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool."
Understanding the anatomy of different animals (e.g. beef, pork, lamb, chicken) is important to know how to properly break down the carcass into specific cuts.
Muscular System: This topic covers the different muscles in animals, including their structure, function, and location in the body.
Skeletal System: This topic covers the different bones in animals, including their structure, function, and location in the body.
Digestive System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in digestion, including the mouth, stomach, intestines, and liver.
Respiratory System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in breathing, including the lungs, trachea, and diaphragm.
Circulatory System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in circulating blood throughout the body, including the heart, blood vessels, and blood cells.
Nervous System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in transmitting and processing information in the body, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
Reproductive System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in reproduction, including the gonads, uterus, and oviducts.
Endocrine System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in producing and regulating hormones in the body, including the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, and adrenal glands.
Urinary System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in eliminating waste and regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body, including the kidneys, ureters, and bladder.
Integumentary System: This topic covers the different organs and processes involved in protecting the body, including the skin, hair, and nails.
Beef: Butchering a beef animal involves cutting it into primal cuts, such as rib, loin, chuck, round, and brisket. These primal cuts are further processed into retail cuts, such as steaks and roasts, or ground meat.
Pork: Butchering a pig involves dividing it into primal cuts, such as the shoulder, loin, belly, and leg. The primal cuts are further processed into retail cuts, such as chops, roasts, and bacon, or ground meat.
Lamb: Butchering a lamb involves dividing it into primal cuts, such as the shoulder, rack, loin, and leg. The primal cuts are further processed into retail cuts, such as chops, roasts, and ground meat.
Poultry: Butchering chickens, turkeys, and ducks involve dividing them into parts, such as the breast, wing, leg, and thigh. These parts are further processed into retail cuts or left whole.
Fish: Butchering fish involves removing the head, scales, and internal organs, and then cutting the fish into fillets or steaks.
Game animals: Butchering game animals, such as deer, elk, and moose, involve dividing them into primal cuts and then further processing them into retail cuts or ground meat.
Offal: Butchering animals also involves separating and processing the organs, such as liver, heart, kidneys, and tripe, which are considered offal.
"Farmed ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs are sometimes referred to as livestock. Horses are considered livestock in the United States."
"The USDA classifies pork, veal, beef, and lamb (mutton) as livestock, and all livestock as red meat."
"Poultry and fish are not included in the category. The latter is likely due to the fact that fish products are not governed by the USDA, but by the FDA."
"The breeding, maintenance, slaughter, and general subjugation of livestock, called animal husbandry, is a part of modern agriculture and has been practiced in many cultures since humanity's transition to farming from hunter-gatherer lifestyles."
"Livestock farming practices have largely shifted to intensive animal farming."
"Intensive animal farming increases the yield of the various commercial outputs, but also negatively impacts animal welfare, the environment, and public health."
"Livestock provide diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool."
"In particular, beef, dairy, and sheep are an outsized source of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture."
"Animal husbandry practices have varied widely across cultures and time periods. It continues to play a major economic and cultural role in numerous communities."
"Livestock are raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption."
"The main difference is that poultry and fish are not categorized as livestock. Fish products are governed by the FDA, not the USDA."
"Cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs are commonly referred to as livestock."
"While it increases commercial outputs, intensive animal farming negatively affects animal welfare, the environment, and public health."
"Animal husbandry plays a major economic and cultural role in numerous communities."
"Beef, dairy, and sheep contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture."
"Livestock farming provides meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool."
"The USDA classifies pork, veal, beef, and lamb (mutton) as livestock, and all livestock as red meat."
"Intensive animal farming practices in livestock farming have had negative impacts on animal welfare."
"Fish products are governed by the FDA, while livestock products fall under the jurisdiction of the USDA."