The slaughtering process has been the target of criticism, and the sanity of the facilities for not providing the necessary hygiene for the slaughtering and meat storage procedure. The objective was to expose the level of knowledge of the people involved in the slaughter process and meat consumers in Itabi / SE municipality through a form with directed questions that aimed to expose the degree of knowledge of them. Of the marchers 54.0% remain in the activity due to lack of opportunity, 63.0% of the total interviewed believe that working conditions are adequate and only 36.4% do not agree with the way animals are treated during the whole process. until the slaughter. Consumers prefer meat sold at the fair (65.7%), of the total respondents 88.24% would be willing to pay a higher price for meat where the animal was slaughtered in a stress-free environment for the animal, as 80% confirmed that they reduced consumption if they learned that slaughter practices were used. The educational level directly influences the degree of knowledge about the risks of contaminated food consumption, as well as the lower the educational level the lower the precaution to the animal integrity, the whole procedure and also after slaughter in the meat handling.

The digit grass is a highly cultivated species in Northeast Brazil, especially in Sergipe and Alagoas. However, research related to the management of fertilization of this specie is incipient. This experiment was carried out to examine the productive potential of digit grass and its morphological changes in response to nitrogen fertilization. The experimental period was from August 2014 to July 2015. Treatments consisted of five levels of nitrogen fertilization (0, 50, 100, 300 and 600 kg ha-1) arranged in a randomized-block design with four replicates. Urea was used as a source of nitrogen. Height, light interception (LI), leaf area index (LAI), total tiller density (TTD), basal tiller density (BTD) and total (TDM), leaf (LDM) and stem dry matter (SDM) accumulations were influenced (P0.05) by the nitrogen doses, fitting a positive quadratic equation. Nitrogen fertilization did not influence (P0.05) dead material accumulation rate or aerial tiller density. Overall, the increasing nitrogen doses culminated in increased canopy height, LI and LAI as a result of the increase in TTD and BTD, which in turn elevated TDM, LDM and SDM. The herbage yield potential of digit grass can be increased with the application of 478 kg N ha-1, enabling its use as an alternative in intensive animal production systems.