Meat Matters!

Produced By:

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)

States:

Qld, NSW, SA, NT, ACT, Tas, WA

Aimed at:

Grade 7

- 8

Curriculum 9.0:

AC9TDE8K01, AC9TDE8K02, AC9TDE8K04, AC9TDE8K05, AC9TDE8P01, AC9TDE8P03, AC9TDE8P03

Lesson Type:

Subjects:

Keywords:

meat, red meat, sustainable, resource management, meat processing, water management, processors, processing plants, environmental practices

Meat Matters!

This unit aims to help students discover sustainable resource management practices used by the Australian red meat processing industry for the use and management of water and energy, and the sustainable management of waste. Students the systems and technologies used by meat processors with a specific emphasis on how they use best practice environmental management in the processing plants.

Students are tasked with reinvigorating an older processing plant to ensure the plant uses best practice environmental management strategies on-site.

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