Processing and Preparation of Leg of Lamb

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In this essay, taking a process from everyday life and discussing it as a staged process that involves layers of decision making. The process chosen for this purpose involves acquiring, preparing, using and discarding a leg of meat, and in the process producing products and by products. Endeavoring to identify the processes involved in treating the leg of lamb in such a way that they will be “interpretable” to future generations is the ultimate aim of this essay.

LAMB AS A RAW MATERIAL

Wikipedia (1, 2009) defines lamb as the meat of the domestic sheep, clarifying that lamb is the meat of a young sheep, whereas a hogget or mutton is the meat of a significantly older sheep. The cost values of lamb stipulate varying classification systems depending on the country. This enables the consumer to purchase their requirements accordingly.

The definition of lamb varies considerably between nations. New Zealand, for example, has the following classifications:

Lamb: A sheep under 12 months of age, presenting no incisor teeth.

Hogget: A young male or female sheep that presents no more than two incisor teeth.

Mutton: Refers to an older female or castrated male sheep that has more than two incisor teeth present.

The younger the lamb, the more tender and pink the meat is, whereas mutton usually has significantly darker flesh. Many other specific classifications of lamb are employed in various locations, such as the spring lamb, baby lamb, yearling lamb and sucker lamb meat which can be purchased in some countries (Wikipedia 1, 2009).

MESHING TECHNOLOGY WITH BODY CONSTRAINTS

The Master Butcher website (2009) states that butchering requires the right tools or it can become hazardous and also frustrating. Professional b...

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...ce can be repeated exactly the same. Each material is different and not everybody functions the same way each day. People’s strength and capabilities vary as experience grows or for various other reasons. The reduction sequence of acquiring a leg of lamb is rather too complex to explain in this short analogy, as there are many other factors involved.

Works Cited

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton#column-on.

Accessed on 29 April 2009

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_down#column.one

Accessed 30 April 2009

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/searh.html

Accessed 1 May 2009

http://members.shaw.ca/masterbutcher/

Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern (2004), A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia’s Flaked Stone Artifacts, Museum Victoria and Aboriginal Studies Press, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

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