Abstract

In the past few years there has been an increasing interest in animal products originating from rearing systems that could be considered ‘natural’ or ‘traditional’, and niche market opportunities are available for pork produced with socially-acceptable assurances. Nevertheless, research comparing the effects of housing systems (outdoors vs indoors) on pork tenderness has yielded conflicting results, perhaps due to geographical location, climate and genotypes evaluated (Beattie et al., 2000; Gentry et al., 2001; Guy and Edwards, 2001)...

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