FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Food Manufacturing Industry

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Food Manufacturing Industry

Introduction

Dairy foods production industry has rapidly concentrated in the hands of a few major corporations, and is a multi-billion dollar industry. A dairy industry is an essential component of food industry, and is a business enterprise set up for the animal milk harvesting - mostly from goats, cows, buffalo, camels, horse, or sheep for human use. A dairy is located on a section of a multi-purpose farm or a dedicated dairy farm that is intended with the milk harvesting. As an attributive, the word dairy refers to milk-based products, derivatives and processes, and the animals and workers involved in their production: for example dairy cattle, dairy goat. A dairy farm produces milk and a dairy factory processes it into a variety of dairy products.

In the year 2006, the United Kingdom dairy industry produced more than 20 billion gallons of milk. This milk is sold and pasteurized, or transformed into ice cream, cream, butter and cheese for consumers in the UK and across the world. At the end of the 19th Century, with the boom of technology, dairy production becomes able to spread out from regional dairy consumption to a countrywide industry. Several people consider dairy farms comprise of a red barns, grazing cows, rolling hills, and agrarian ideal of open grassy pastures. Regrettably, the dairy industry growth has contributed to the ideal farming practices demise such as use of machinery or fewer hands. Nowadays, large industrial facilities produced most of the milk that scarcely resemble one's farm vision. Nonetheless, the last few years have observed an optimistic and fast rising trend toward sustainable and organic dairy production.

Discussion

With the retailers' and consumers' demand for cheaper dairy products, together with the pricing power of corporations over production, farmers are pulled into unhealthy and drastic means to capitalize on output while decreasing costs. This corporate dairy production form intends to extract the maximum milk output from each animal. Consequently, the use unnatural feed, breeding and of new technologies, such as hormone injections directed to a quadrupling of the average milk amount for each dairy cow between the year 1950 and 2005.

In 1938, with the artificial insemination implementation, breeders started to breed those animals that have the capability to produce milk at the highest. The strict technological control over the genetic makeup and the breeding decreases the diversity of dairy cow gene. The threat associated with this technique of breeding is the mutation in the DNA chain of dairy cows or the eventual inability to ward off viruses, ensuing in a quick disease spread and might results in death.

In natural surroundings, ruminant animals, such as cows, manage to survive on mixed grasses. For industrial milk amenities endeavouring to boost production with limited space and cost, pastureland becomes a redundant cost. Grazing land grasses are substituted with an unnatural diet that is rich in protein grains and high fat to increase production of milk, as well as to substitute energy lost by ...