This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at El Irta estudia alternativas a la castración de cerdos y el descornado en vacuno
The Irta study alternatives to the castration of pigs and the descornado in cattle
15/12/2008
December 15, 2008
Dr. Maria Àngels Oliver, of the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (Irta), is responsible for the European project Alcasde, which aims to develop and promote alternatives to the castration of pigs to improve the welfare of the animals without losing the quality of its meatas well as find alternatives in the descornado of the cattle.
This project, funded by the European Union, aims to objective scientific information on the preferences of consumers with regard to the acceptance of such practices and the changes that can be found in the flesh in order to make recommendations to the policy of the European Union on these issues. Another challenge of the project is the develop rapid methods for detecting the so-called sexual smell of meat in slaughterhouses.
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