The phrase "animal for human consumption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing food sources, agriculture, or dietary practices related to animals that are raised or harvested for food.
Example: "The regulations surrounding the treatment of animals for human consumption have become increasingly strict in recent years."
Alternatives: "livestock for human consumption" or "animals raised for food".
US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.
We also had the FDA approving "Frankenfish" without requiring labeling of the world's first genetically modified animal for human consumption.
If approved, AquAdvantage would be the first genetically altered animal for human consumption in the United States.
I will thoroughly confess to loving foie gras, but I realize this is probably the most controversial food product on the market, and I really would not eat it if I felt something more cruel than the sacrifice of an animal for human consumption took place.
They believe keeping animals in zoos and aquariums where there are high death rates, using animals in experiments and slaughtering animals for human consumption are permissible as long as these activities are conducted in a humane way.
The reason is that a number of the earliest cases involved food handlers in markets in Guangdong Province who sold live exotic animals for human consumption.
(Was it given hormones and antibiotics?) None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption.
However, as Health Canada was unable to assess the safety of the GM animals for human consumption, the unversity lost its funding for Enviropigs and the 10 remaining animals were euthanised earlier this year.
Such an agriculture permits a nation to store large quantities of grains and other foodstuffs in concentrated form to be utilized to raise animals for human consumption during such emergencies as war or natural calamity.
These uses of animals are so institutionalized, so normalized, in our society that it is difficult to find the critical distance needed to see them as the horrors that they are: so many forms of subjection, servitude and — in the case of killing animals for human consumption and other purposes — outright murder.
