Pêche et production animale

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Effect of Handling Cattle During Transport and Marketing on Quality of Beef

Melkam Aleme, Gubil Bekele

The review summarizes the effect of pre-slaughter handling of cattle, mainly during transport and marketing on quality of beef. During transportation animals suffer too many stress full conditions such as improper handling on loading and un-loading, heat stress, improper ventilation in truck, long distance transport ether by trucking or on feet, feed and water deprivations and cattle with different age loaded on same trucker. In other hand effect of marketing were critical causes of stress due to condition variation for the cattle including temperature, cold, crowding, noise, fighting, lair age for time of recovery after long distance traveling to market. Meat quality affected by those preslaughter conditions which cause different physical and chemical changes that causes to loss the quality attributes which unacceptable by consumers those changes of beef quality related to the color, PH, tenderness, flavor, beef health and water holding capacity. Thus implies more research and policy maker’s suggestions including other participants in the marketing system as well as stockholder need to improve beef quality arises from pre-slaughter conditions in terms of transport and marketing facilities critical issues in developing countries and further need of research technologies in developed countries.