Note Taking Guide
Topic # 3011
Food and Fiber From Animals
INTRODUCTION
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Animals play major roles in the food production chain
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Conservation of low quality roughages to food and fiber for humans
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Conservation of grains to high quality protein and nutrients
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LIVESTOCK CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL WORLD PROTEIN DEMAND
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MEAT
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MILK
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AQUATIC ANIMALS
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EGGS
TYPICAL PROTEIN CONSUMPTION IN THE U.S.
(grams per week/person)
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MILK
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MEAT
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EGGS
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AQUATIC ANIMALS
BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES
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- Seedstock production - purebred and crossbred
- Cow-calf commercial - feeder calf production
- Stocker - backgrounding
- Feedlot - finishing
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- Seedstock production - purebred and crossbred
- Farrow to finish
- Farrow to feeder pig
- Finishing feeder pigs
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- Seedstock production - purebred and crossbred
- Breeding - ewe flock feeder lamb production
- Market - lamb feed lots
- Ewe lock to finishing
• Range operations
• Farm flocks
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- Seedstock production - purebred and cross
- Milking herds
- Veal production
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- Layers
- Fryers/broilers
- Turkeys
- Breeding
- Game birds
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- Commercial fisheries
- Fish farming
DEVELOPMENT IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
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sophistication of livestock production
sized units of livestock production
Developing nations consume large quantities of aquatic animals
- Amount of protein is considerably than that consumed in Western nations