<sod>'''Meat''' is animal [[flesh]] that is eaten as [[food]].<ref name="Lawrie">{{cite book|last=Lawrie|first=R. A.|author2=Ledward, D. A.|title=Lawrie’s meat science|publisher=Woodhead Publishing Limited|location=Cambridge|year=2006|edition=7th|isbn=978-1-84569-159-2}}</ref>{{rp|1}} Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.<ref name="McArdle">{{cite web|url=http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm|title=Humans are Omnivores|last=McArdle|first=John|publisher=Vegetarian Resource Group|accessdate=October 6, 2013}}</ref> The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, pigs and cattle, and eventually their use in meat production on an industrial scale.<eod>
<sod>'''Meat''' is animal [[flesh]] that is eaten as [[food]].<ref name="Lawrie">{{cite book|last=Lawrie|first=R. A.|author2=Ledward, D. A.|title=Lawrie’s meat science|publisher=Woodhead Publishing Limited|location=Cambridge|year=2006|edition=7th|isbn=978-1-84569-159-2}}</ref>{{rp|1}} Humans are [[omnivorous]],<ref name="Wildman">{{cite book|title = Advanced Human Nutrition|authors = Robert E. C. Wildman, Denis M. Medeiros| publisher = [[CRC Press]] | year = 2000 | page = 37| accessdate = October 6, 2013 |isbn = 0-8493-8566-0| url = https://books.google.com/?id=CXwylbbRXvAC&pg=PA37&dq=en#v=onepage&q=&f=false}}</ref><ref name="Womack">{{cite book|title = The Anthropology of Health and Healing|author=Mari Womack| publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]] | year = 2010 | page = 243| accessdate = October 6, 2013 |isbn = 0-7591-1044-1| url = https://books.google.com/?id=RqAraOM_CKgC&pg=PA243&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false}}</ref><ref name="McArdle">{{cite web|last=McArdle|first=John|title=Humans are Omnivores|publisher=Vegetarian Resource Group|accessdate=October 6, 2013|url=http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm}}</ref> and have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.<ref name="McArdle" /> The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, pigs and cattle, and eventually their use in meat production on an industrial scale.<eod>