| Good meat packaging is essential especially if you | | | | a few years, refrigerator was invented and it makes |
| want to retain freshness of meat. Normally it includes | | | | meat transportation a lot easier. |
| everything from different process like slaughtering, | | | | There meat packing plants that specialize on certain |
| processing and packaging of animals. This would be | | | | meat or products. There are some meat packers that |
| distributed in retailers such as supermarkets and | | | | pack, process and distribute organic kind of meats. |
| grocery. Usually meats, which are coming from farms, | | | | Organic ones come from animals but they are not |
| include flesh of pigs, cows, lambs and others. However, | | | | given by antibiotics or hormones that could improve |
| as you know, chicken, ducks and fish are not | | | | their quality. There are companies the deal with frozen |
| considered as meat. Meat packing is an industry that | | | | meats only and other are just exclusive meat packers. |
| should be inspected by government because this is a | | | | There are many issues surrounding the meat |
| place where most disease comes from. This should | | | | packaging industry. It includes issue of sanitation and |
| adhere to the cleanliness standard set by the | | | | cleanliness. There some companies that don't adhere |
| government. Each state has its own policy. | | | | to the standards set by government. There are times |
| Sanitation of packing is necessary because meat can | | | | when companies are accused of animal cruelty of bad |
| carry diseases. Due to unsanitary conditions meats | | | | practices of slaughtering. |
| can be infected. If consumers eat meat with infections, | | | | Recently, there are diseases like mad cow diseases |
| they would most likely acquire certain disease. This | | | | that occur in meat plants. There some complaints |
| could be fatal. Since meat is coming from dead | | | | coming from workers of meat processing company. |
| animals, it should be kept cold so that it could not be | | | | This includes workers becoming burned and they lose |
| spoiled. This is the reason why freezing is very crucial | | | | their fingers in the process of packaging meat. In some |
| in the meat industry. Commercial distribution of meat | | | | countries, government licensing, employment and |
| started in 1874. It started in England to United States. | | | | inspection standards are not adequate enough to |
| Packing plants in the olden days are cooled with ice | | | | protect the consumers. The government is |
| since electric refrigeration was not yet invented. After | | | | responding by monitoring and inspecting procedures. |