USEFUL PRODUCTS FROM MAMMALS

Carabao milk: Isabela's white gold

Indigenous to the Philippines, the carabao
has been part of the farming family's
animals since time immemorial. Known as
kalabaw in the country, adult carabaos,
which can weigh up to 2,000 kilograms, are
widely used not only for pulling the plow,
but also for transporting the family and farm
products to the market. Carabao milk is also
popular as food as it is complete with
essential vitamins and minerals, not to
mention its protein, lactose, fat, and water
contents that make carabao dairy products
all the more enticing for consumers. And
because there are various dairy products that
can be easily processed from carabao milk,

Ref: http://www.bar.gov.ph/digesthome/digest-archives/107-2011-2ndquarter/419-aprjun2011-carabao-milk-4
Sheep 101.info
Wool is the product for which sheep are best
known. Wool is widely used in clothing
from knitwear such as socks and jumpers to
cloth used for suits and costumes. It is used
in the furniture trade both for making chair
covers and for upholstery. Many of the
better carpets produced traditionally and
today are made from wool. Wool is used to
fill mattresses. It is used in diverse products,
such as tennis ball covers, pool table baize,
and hanging basket liners.

such as yogurt, pastillas de leche, kesong

Alternative uses of wool are increasing.

puti, pasteurized milk, going into this

Wool is a very useful product when oil spills

venture creates for higher profit even for

occur. Pads made from wool can be used to

individual homemakers.

soak up the oil. In 1999 when an oil spill

The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC)

created way back in 1992, ensures that we
are able to "conserve, propagate, and
promote the carabao as source of milk, meat,
draft power, and hide to benefit the rural
farmers" (Hernandez, 2006). Through

occurred near Phillip Island, Australia, the

Phillip Island penguins were fitted with
wool sweaters. The sweaters helped
maintain the tiny penguin's body heat and
prevented them from being poisoned by the
oil.

programs that focus on genetic conservation

There is a company in the United Kingdom

and utilization, social and enterprise

that makes caskets out of wool. Prince

development, and research and

Charles is a big support of the eco-friendly

development, the PCC, together with the

wool caskets. Several companies are making

National Dairy Authority (NDA), has been

insulation from wool. Wool has a higher R

able to expand, not only the knowledge on

value than many traditional materials. Mulch

carabaos and its dairy produce, but also in

pads made from wool offer an

the ways in which we are able to fulfill a

environmentally-friendly alternative to

national, and possibly, even an international

plastic mulches.

market demand.

Bricks reinforced with wool (and seaweed)

oysters, or Rocky Mountain oysters).

are less toxic than those reinforced with

Some intestines are cooked and eaten as-is,

traditional alternatives. Plus, they're

but are more often cleaned and used as

stronger. An entrepreneur in England is

natural sausage casings. The bones are used

making packaging material out of left over

for making beef stock.

wool. Not only are the wool-insulated boxes

more environmentally-friendly, but they
have out-performed poly-based insulating
material, keeping items twice as cool.

Beef from steers and heifers is very similar,

(all treatments being equal), except steers
have slightly more marbling and fat.
Depending on economics, the number of

Ref:

heifers kept for breeding varies. The meat

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from older cows and bulls is usually

Beef

tougher, so it is frequently used

for mince (UK)/ground

Beef is the culinary

beef (US). Cattle raised for beef may be

name for meat from bovines,

allowed to roam free on grasslands, or may

especially cattle. Beef can be harvested from

be confined at some stage in pens as part of

cows, bulls, heifers or steers. Acceptability

a large feeding operation called

as a food source varies in different parts of

a feedlot (or concentrated animal feeding

the world.

operation), where they are usually fed a

ration of grain, protein, roughage and a

Beef muscle meat can be cut

vitamin/mineral preblend.

into roasts, short ribs or steak (filet

mignon, sirloin steak, rump steak, rib

Beef is the third most widely consumed

steak, rib eye steak, hanger steak...). Some

meat in the world, accounting for about 25%

cuts are processed (corned beef or beef

of meat production worldwide,

jerky), and trimmings, usually mixed

after pork and poultry at 38% and 30%

with meat from older, leaner cattle, are

respectively.[1] In absolute numbers,

ground, minced or used in sausages. The

the United States, Brazil, and the People's

blood is used in some varieties of blood

Republic of China are the world's three

sausage. Other parts that are eaten include

largest consumers of beef. On a per capita

the oxtail, liver, tongue, tripe from

basis in 2009, Argentines ate the most beef

the reticulum or rumen, glands (particularly

at 64.6 kg per person; people in the US ate

the pancreas and thymus, referred to

40.2 kg, while those in the EU ate 16.9 kg.[2]

as sweetbread), the heart, the brain (although

forbidden where there is a danger of bovine
spongiform encephalopathy, BSE), the liver,
the kidneys, and the tender testicles of the
bull (known in the US as calf fries, prairie

The world's largest exporters of beef

are Brazil, India, Australia and the United
States in that order (in 2014).[3] Beef
production is also important to

the economies of Uruguay, Canada, Paragua

a smooth and pliable leather used almost

y, Mexico, Argentina, Belarus and Nicaragu

exclusively in the manufacture of shoes and

a.

watch straps, although another use is for the

manufacture of finger protection tabs for

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef

recreational archery, where it is prized for its

toughness, longevity, and protective
qualities.

Shell cordovan
Shell cordovan oxford Brogue

Due to the difficulty in applying dyes, shell

cordovan is available in a narrow range of

Shell cordovan (or cordovan) is a type

colors.

of leather commonly used in shoemaking.

Cordovan is equine leather made from the

Horween Leather Company in Chicago has

fibrous flat muscle (or shell) beneath

the longest history of tanning shell cordovan

the hide on the rump of the horse.[1] The

of any currently operating tannery within the

leather derives its name from the city

United States.

of Cordoba, Spain, where it was originally

prepared by the Moors.

Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_cordovan

Production
After removal from the horse, the hide is

IVORY TRADE

measured from the root of the tail 18 inches

forward on the backbone. The hide is cut at

The ivory trade is the primary reason that

right angles to the backbone and the

the

resulting pieces termed a "front" (the

diminishing at an alarming rate. Elephants

forward part) and the "butt". The term

are very intelligent creatures, capable of

cordovan leather applies to the product of

forming very close and complex bonds, and

both the tanned fronts and tanned butts, but

poachers make them suffer terribly due to

is especially used in connection with the

this lucrative trade.

elephant

population

worldwide

is

term galoshes, meaning the vamps or bootfronts cut from the shell of the butt.

Other species killed for their ivory tusks are

the Hippopotamus, Walrus, Narwhal and

After being tanned, leather from the "front"

Mammoth.

is typically used in the fabrication of gloves,

or blackened, to be used in the tops of shoes.

The demand for ivory products is highest in

The "butt", after tanning, is passed through a

China, and maybe surprisingly, the USA.

splitting-machine which removes the grain,

or hair side, revealing what is termed the
"shell". The close fibers of the shell result in

Poachers move from place to place where

the elephant population has not yet been

obliterated, wiping it out wherever they go,

People will pay high prices for products they

using the most cruel and brutal methods.

believe

contain

the Chinese
Despite an international ivory trade ban

these

powers

Medicines page

for

(see
further

information).

being in place, there has recently been a

surge in this illegal and brutal practice.

Ivory poaching for tusks is the main reason

that elephants have been so heavily hunted.

WHAT IS IVORY USED FOR?

Poachers mercilessly kill elephants so they
can sell their ivory tusks. Today, it is thought
that most of the ivory is illegally smuggled
to China and Thailand to make chop-sticks,
jewelry, ornaments, hair accessories, and
many

other

items.

In Asia, many people believe that products

made with certain animal parts have medical
and mystical powers. This is despite such
medicinal powers having never been proven
and actually having been dis-proven.

Elephant ivory has been used in huge

amounts to make billiards balls, piano keys,
identification chops and many other items
for human enjoyment. Although hunting for
ivory has been much more severe in Africa,
there is no doubt that hunting and poaching
has had an effect on the elephant numbers in
Asia.

In

1989,

the

Convention

on

International Trade in Endangered Species

(CITES) banned the ivory trade putting
hunting outside the law. Poaching does still
take place, but in most of the Asian
elephants ranges it is under control.
Ref:

http://www.animal-rights-

action.com/ivory-trade.html