Search for dissertations about: "Swedish meat industry"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Swedish meat industry.
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1. Production in a State of Abundance : Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain
Abstract : This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. READ MORE
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2. Factors Controlling Meat Quality of Pork in Relation to Breed and RN Genotype
Abstract : The Hampshire breed was introduced as the terminal sire in Swedish slaughter pigs in the 1970s, mainly to reduce stress susceptibility and associated problems of meat quality, such as the meat being pale, soft and exudative (PSE). Since then, however, the RN – allele, a mutation which is only found in pure-bred Hampshire and in crosses with it, has been discovered. READ MORE
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3. Market orientation of the Swedish pork sector : the case of the demutualization of Swedish Meats
Abstract : In 2007, the largest slaughterhouse in Sweden, the farmer cooperative Swedish Meats, demutualized. That was the end of cooperative dominance in the Swedish meat industry. Paper VI claims that Swedish Meats demutualized because members no longer perceived the benefits from dealing with the cooperative to exceed the costs. READ MORE
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4. Modifying Cooking Practices to Reduce the Formation of Heterocyclic Amines
Abstract : Commonly cooked meat dishes contain heterocyclic amines (HAs) at ng/g levels. HAs are animal carcinogens, form DNA adducts in human tissues, and have been associated with increased risk of cancer in epidemiological studies, and it is thus recommended that human intake be decreased. READ MORE
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5. Integrative physiology as a tool towards good animal welfare and sustainability in aquaculture: Focus on intestinal function and health
Abstract : The human population is growing, and the world’s leaders are trying to provide humans with food resources and at the same time setting goals promoting sustainable food production. This means that we need to find new food sources that are not in conflict with future generations’ right to a world without hunger and environmental destruction. READ MORE