Variety Meat Terminology

Meat is animal flesh that is used as food. Most often this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs livers skin brains bone marrow kidneys or lungs. The word meat is also used by the meat packing industry in a more restrictive sense—the flesh of mammalian species (pigs cattle lambs etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption to the exclusion of fish poultry and game.