The History of Meat Trading
The History of Meat Trading
Author(s): Derrick RixsonThroughout history, the development of the meat trade has been dependent upon and interrelated with the social, commercial and economic development of the community at large.
This fascinating book, of equal interest to those involved in the meat and associated industries and to social historians, traces the history of man in respect of the utilisation and consumption of meat. It considers the progress towards the domestication of meat animals after the last ice age and the importance of domestic animals for their meat and other products in the development of the early civilisations, and looks at the part played by the meat trade in relation to the growth of urbanisation and the marketing structures that emerged.
"The History of Meat Trading is both a useful learning tool and a fascinating read." Meat International
"an interesting read - or history - of community and social developments as a whole and many a non-meat person will find the work absorbing." Meat Training Council Newsletter
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Extent: 407 pp.
ISBN: 1-897676-31-8
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- Introduction
- The Palaeolithic origins of butchery
- From hunter-gatherers to farmers
- The earliest civilisations
- Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire
- Meat trading in the Anglo-Saxon period
- The Middle Ages trading boom
- The rise of the Guilds Merchant and Craft Guilds
- A profile of the urban meat trade
- Markets and fairs
- Statutory and other controls of meat trading
- The standing of the Guilds and their function
- Meat consumers and meat consumption
- Meat supplies and marketing
- Developments in livestock farming
- Slaughter of butchers' animals
- Meat preservation
- Trade in livestock
- Smithfield: livestock market to meat market
- Shipping live animals for slaughter
- Trade in carcass meat
- The changing nature of the meat trade during the 19th Century
- Meat inspection and the sale of unfit meat
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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