Cahier iconographique couleur A taste for words, the flavour of languages W hat should an academy do, if not create a dictionary? In a certain way, we are continuing his work, we are laying claim to his succession in the explanation and comprehension of the words of the meat sector. The task is virtually endless. The vocabulary of these very specific businesses is incredibly rich and extremely complex, like the products and knowledge it describes.
Like all living languages, this one is constantly being enriched. Words and expression appear to name new products, techniques, equipment or just spring up from the fertile linguistic imagination of meat professionals. Other words disappear, first from usages, then from memories. In the final phase, a smaller team was created to bring the work to its fruition: rereading, We would like to thank here all those who directly or indirectly contributed to this work.
We will cite them by name elsewhere. Today, meat is one of the flagship products of globalization. The countries and populations who access development want to improve their diet and to do so increase their consumption of animal proteins.
The worldwide meat trade that concerned rather small quantities in the 20th century grew considerably, while the world changed at high speed.
Who remembers that at the beginning of the s, Brazil imported European meat? Who knows today that the largest cattle herd by number is found in India? Who can be unaware of the sizeable investments that China and Russia have made in their meat production sectors? The internationalization of the meat market is a fact of the first years of the 21st century.
