Pork, Bacon, Sausages, Pies.
Truffle-Hunting & Organ Transplantation
Explore the Cute Ways & Tasty Uses of Pigs!

Guide to Home Pork Production plus instructions for Jointing Pork Cuts, Making your own Hams & Sausages, Curing Bacon & Recipes including Prosciutto Ham

4th in the highly acclaimed series of Meat Inspection Handbooks (U.K.  Canada  USA).
Lavishly illustrated, condensed guide to inspection of pork and manufacturing pig carcasses for disease conditions that require partial or total condemnation of the meat. The full colour photographs make this Meat Inspector's manual into a "recognize disease conditions" atlas that is easy to use for untrained people e.g. hunters and home-butchery enthusiasts, as well as official veterinary surgeons (OVS in the EU) and meat inspectors in public abattoir hygiene service. Basic instructions in porcine anatomy, disease and food-safety-related matters is included. The book is useful for wild or home-killed meat consumers. This pocket textbook is also useful for hog-breeders and rearers who want to interpret abbatoir condemnation data or simply get an idea what a sow, boar or grower may have died of.
Dr. A. Grist is a lecturer at the University of West of England, Bristol. He is the author of Bovine Meat Inspection (UK  Canada  USA), Ovine Meat Inspection (UK  Canada  USA) and Poultry Meat Inspection (UK  Canada  USA).

CONTENTS:
* Anatomy & physiology of pigs * Diseases of swine * Parasites of pigs & pigmeat * Neoplasia * Affections of specific carcase parts * Disease and cause * Conditions encountered at post mortem inspection * Anatomy – aide memoires * Index of autopsy Disease Conditions and causes listed by Organ Affected (trachea, uterus, lymph nodes, mammary glands, muscles, skin, lungs, feet, fetus, head, heart, pluck, joint lesions, intestinal pathology).

Includes reviews by international scientific and practical industry experts renowned for their knowledge and work in the area of meat science and pig welfare.

Topics: Welfare of growing & finishing pigs; Housing & environmental effects on welfare & Meat quality of the Grower-Finisher pig; Opportunities to improve Grow-Finish pig welfare; Welfare of pigs during transport; Loading density; Transport distance & duration; Vehicle design; Non-ambulatory animals & unfit for movement; Effects of preslaughter handling on stress response & meat quality in pigs; Critical points in pre-slaughter period; Welfare of pigs during stunning & slaughter; Handling during abattoir processing; Stun methods; Leg weakness and longevity; Stockmanship skills: Human-pig relationships; Human-animal relationships in pig production; Fear, productivity & welfare; Stockperson characteristics regulating the pig’s fear of humans; Important job-related characteristics of farm staff personnel; Opportunities to improve human-animal interactions in the pig industry; Training; Selection of stockpeople; Animal welfare science; Pigmeat Quality Assurance PQA programs.

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