(under the class definition) Processes involving the overt treatment of a live animal.
(1) Note. Examples of methods within this subclass are mere methods of feeding animals, killing an animal followed by a food working operation, injecting animals with a material which modifies the meat characteristic of the animal followed by a slaughtering operation, milking cows followed by a treatment of the milk.
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56+, for processes of adding a proteolytic enzyme to a meat product.
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119, Animal Husbandry,
212, for a crustacean-feeding method, subclass 230 for a fish-feeding method, and subclass 242 for a mollusk-feeding method. 424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions, for compositions for curing or preventing a disease in an animal and for a process of using such a composition, and for a composition for maintaining, increasing, decreasing, limiting
or destroying a physiologic body function and to a method of using such a composition.
452, Butchering, appropriate subclasses for butchering operations in general.
