Welcome. - Welcome. - 1 What Do We Want from the Carcass?. - I The Efficiency of Meat-Producing Systems. - 2 The Relevance of Various Measures of Efficiency. - 3 The Influence of Reproductive Rate on the Efficiency of Meat Production in Animal Populations. - 4 The Optimum Size and Structure of Enterprise. - II The Efficiency of Food Conversion. - 5 Comparison of Biological Mechanisms for Conversion of Feed to Meat. - 6 Efficiencies of Energy Utilization during Growth. - 7 Efficiency of Protein Utilization. - III The Development of Muscle. - 8 Towards More Efficient Meat Animals: A Theoretical Consideration of Constraints at the Level of the Muscle Cell. - 9 Factors Affecting Muscle Size and Structure. - IV The Development of Fatty Tissue. - 10 Physiological Significance of Lipids. - 11 The Control of Fat Absorption Deposition and Mobilization in Farm Animals. - V Endocrine Regulation. - 12 Hormonal Control of Muscle Growth. - 13 Protein-Fat Interactions. - VI Overall Control of Growth. - 14 The Right Size. - 15 The Central Control of Growth: Its Connection with Age-dependent Disease. - VII Environmental Control of Growth. - 16 Environmental Control of Growth: The Maternal Environment. - 17 The Nutritional Control of Growth. - 18 Climate and Season. - VIII Physiological Significance of Differences in Body Composition. - 19 The Physiological Basis of Reproductive Efficiency. - 20 Hormonal Influences on the Growth Metabolism and Body Composition of Pigs. - 21 Observations of the Apparent Antagonism between Meat-producing Capacity and Meat Quality in Pigs. - IX The Technology of Producing Meat Animals. - 22 Meat Production from Ruminants. - 23 Advances in Pig Technology. - X The Use of Genetic Potential. - 24 The Choice of Selection Objectives in Meat-producing Animals. - 25 Using the World's GeneticResources. - XI The Challenge of New Foods. - 26 Vegetable Protein as a Human Food Background and Present Situation. - 27 Vegetable Protein as a Human Food Research and Development in the National Food Research Institute. - 28 Single Cell Protein as a Feedstuff. - XII Final Perspectives. - Final Perspectives. - Participants. Language: English