Muhammad Kashif Yar

By Muawuz Ijaz, Mubarik Mahmood, Muhammad Kashif Yar, Muhammad Bakhsh and Sana Ullah

Animal handling is a growing issue of concern in many countries around the world. Developed countries in particular show keen interest in the way animals are produced for processing. In such countries, animal welfare is increasingly becoming a primary matter in the process of keeping animals either as pets or for food and at homes or on farms. Not only are they protecting the rights of these animals but compromised handling of animal has negative effects on the carcass and overall meat quality characteristics. Poor quality animal and meat will have poor processing properties, functional quality, eating quality, and more likely to be unaccepted by consumers. Lesser attention has been paid by most developing countries on this issue. By this book chapter, it is expected that developing countries also take interest in proper on-farm and pre-slaughter handling of animals due to their beneficial effect on meat and carcass qualities.

Part of the book: Animal Husbandry

By Maryam Abdul Sattar, Muawuz Ijaz, Mubarik Mahmood, Muhammad Kashif Yar, Jawad Ashraf, Moiz Ali Younas, Sadia Ilyas and Sana Ullah

Zoonoses are illnesses and infections that spread spontaneously from animals to people. They account for over 70% of recently developing infectious illnesses. Meat from cattle is one of the main sources of red meat and essential element of human diet. Meat inspection (MI) is an important aspect to ensure the safety during handling and consuming of meat and meat by-products. Abattoir or modern slaughterhouse is the place where infections are acquired by the workers or veterinary professional as zoonoses. Bacterial zoonotic diseases such as erysipelothricosis, brucella, listeria, and anthrax and viral zoonotic diseases like cow pox, foot and mouth disease, and rift valley fever are causing great economic losses and are important in terms of zoonoses. These zoonotic diseases are mostly diagnosed at abattoir levels using conventional approaches; however, diagnosis and identification of these diseases using latest methods is an important aspect for ensuring meat safety and hygiene. This chapter will discuss the current trends and future prospects about diagnosis and identification of these zoonotic diseases.

Part of the book: Cattle Diseases

By Muhammad Kashif Yar, Mubarik Mahmood, Muawuz Ijaz, Muhammad Hayat Jaspal, Zayrah Rafique, Iftikhar Hussain Badar and Kanwal Rafique

There are severe cattle-specific viral (foot and mouth, vesicular stomatitis, rinderpest, rift valley fever, malignant catarrhal fever, lumpy skin, rabies, bovine leukosis, bovine viral diarrhea, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy), bacterial (tuberculosis, black quarter, botulism, malignant oedema, leptospirosis, brucellosis, anthrax, hemogenic septicemia, actinomycosis, actinobacillosis, mastitis, and metritis), parasitic (lungworm, fasciolosis, cysticercosis, hydatid disease, and onchocercosis), and protozoal (trypanosomiasis, theileriosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and sarcosporidiosis) diseases that affect the carcass judgment and meat quality. These diseases adversely affect cattle health, welfare, and red meat production. This chapter aims to describe the etiology, mode of transmission, ante-mortem and post-mortem findings, carcass and meat quality judgment, and differential diagnosis of these diseases.

Part of the book: Cattle Diseases