Occasional Publication No. 11 (1989)
edited by RW Purchas, BW Butler-Hogg, AS Davies

A 229 page soft covered book in A4 format. Its 16 chapters are organised into 4 sections covering: the nutritive value of meat and meat marketing, animal growth and carcass changes, factors affecting the quantity and quality of meat produced and factors affecting the conversion of the live animal into the final meat product.

A must for anybody in or associated with the meat industry. It contains an excellent overall index with many references at the end of each of its clearly written chapters.