Improving animal welfare status and meat quality through assessment of stress biomarkers: a critical review

P Kumar, MA Ahmed, AA Abubakar, MN Hayat, U Kaka… - Meat Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Stress induces various physiological and biochemical alterations in the animal body, which
are used to assess the stress status of animals. Blood profiles, serum hormones, enzymes …

New insights in improving sustainability in meat production: opportunities and challenges

P Kumar, AA Abubakar, AK Verma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Treating livestock as senseless production machines has led to rampant depletion of natural
resources, enhanced greenhouse gas emissions, gross animal welfare violations, and other …

Pre-slaughter stress mitigation in goats: Prospects and challenges

P Kumar, AA Abubakar, MA Ahmed, MN Hayat, U Kaka… - Meat science, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, the handling of goats (loading, transport, unloading, time spent in lairage)
prior to slaughter as well as the slaughter process (stunning, and bleeding) has largely …

Investigating the impact of pre-slaughter management factors on indicators of fed beef cattle welfare–a sco** review

M Davis, P Sullivan, J Bretón, L Dean… - Frontiers in Animal …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The impact of pre-slaughter management practices on fed beef cattle welfare is
a multifaceted and well researched subject matter. Factors such as transportation, handling …

Preslaughter factors affecting mobility, blood parameters, bruising, and muscle pH of finished beef cattle in the United States

PA Sullivan, MK Davis, MN Nair… - Translational Animal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Decades of work have focused on reducing fear, stress, and discomfort in cattle during the
preslaughter phase by improving and promoting animal handling, transportation, and …

Effect of Stress in Some Blood Parameters and Heat Shock Protein 70 of Awassi Syrian Lambs

RF Salaye, AB Sabow - Tikrit journal for agricultural sciences, 2022 - tjas.org
This study aimed to look into the impact of road transportation in the dry, hot region of Erbil-
Kurdistan, Iraq, on blood parameter changes and heat-shock protein 70 (HSP70) …