ABSTRACT

US livestock producers must move from their present "cowboy" mentality to one in which they seek to become world marketeers of food-animal protein. The US food-animal production industry has seen some quantum jumps in development of alltender, flavorful meat products. The US food-animal production industry has seen some quantum jumps in the last few years in development of alltender, flavorful meat products. Meat protein cubes, dehydrated meat fibers, ready-cooked meals are just a few of the new forms and products pouring out of labs. Throughout the long ages of man, meat has been his primary food. Further, a surface study of archaeology seems to indicate that those civilizations that primarily depended on meat have been the most advanced. Search out a small or medium-sized country that has unfulfilled nutrition and food problems, heavy population density, and a reasonable amount of foreign exchange.