Carcass and meat lamb and kid quality and development of consumer acceptability

Abstract

Small ruminants have been one of the first domesticated species and from their origins have produced multiple benefits to humans. In the last two centuries, world sheep production has become more and more specialised upon geographical areas. But, recent changes in consumer attitudes, together with the increment in artificial fibre industries and human world population, some crisis related with the international wool market and some increments in lamb prices, have provoked that lamb meat has increased its relative importance inside the global sheep income. Also, sheep production systems vary considerably across the world, and reflect the different local environmental conditions, which determine, to a large extent, breeds, housing, levels of intensification and, at the end, local market requirements and qualities. However, among all the meats, sheep meat remains the most internationally traded (16 % of total world production is exported), which explains the potential existence of different lamb products in the same market. Then, the new requirements have created a higher interest for meat production, including its quality and quality marks. This interest from producers and the industry should be reflected in a proportional higher interest from the researches towards sheep and goat, where it exists, in general, important lacks of knowledge and, in particular, in lamb and kid meat Science. In the present speech we will made a special incidence on the relationship between carcass quality and lamb acceptability and on some factors like breed and species, diet and production system, slaughter weight and ageing time and their importance on the variation of the carcass and meat quality, including consumer acceptability.

Percepción del consumidor de proteína animal sobre el bienestar de los animales de producción en Santarém, Pará, Brasil

“…A maioria dos entrevistados da classe C e D acreditam que os produtos de origem animal fazem parte da sua dieta diária, conforme observado nas demais classes, no entanto, nota-se que os consumidores da classe D apresentaram maior índice de pessoas que não crêem neste dado, além disso, os consumidores das classes A, B, C e D já ouviram falar sobre o bem-estar animal, no entanto, os entrevistados da classe A e C demonstraram ter dialogado mais sobre o assunto. Para Astiz (2008) quando as empresas ou cadeias de produção passam a ouvir o consumidor, estas tendem a ter maiores vantagens ao comparar com as demais empresas, uma vez que, as empresas que ouvem a opinião do consumidor tendem a ter mais sucesso.…”

Percepção Dos Consumidores De Proteína Animal Sobre O Bem-Estar Dos Animais De Produção No Municipio De Parauapebas, Pará, Brasil

“…Esses resultados contrastam com os observados em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, onde há exigência dos consumidores por boa qualidade do produto, pois essas pessoas querem se certificar que estão consumindo alimentos bons para sua saúde, produzidos, processados e distribuídos por agentes confiáveis (10). Empresas ou cadeias produtivas orientadas para o consumidor obterão vantagens competitivas frente às demais, em virtude do ambiente concorrencial onde estão inseridas, pois, para que as empresas tenham sucesso, é importante saber o que o consumidor deseja (11).…”

Evaluation of genotype on fatty acid profile and sensory of meat of indigenous Pantaneiro sheep and Texel or Santa Inês crossbred finished on feedlot

“…Spatial location from canonical discriminate analysis of the genotypes Pantaneiro (⊚ P), Texel × Pantaneiro (◊ TP), and Santa Inês × Pantaneiro (+SIP) based on body weight (BW), hot carcass weight (HCW) and fatty acids (C14:0, C17:0, C18:2c9t1, C10:0, C14:1 and C17:1) of longissimus lumborum muscle. meat by consumers (Sañudo Astiz, 2008).…”