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Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.

Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]

Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished from fish or fowl'. The dictionary meaning of the word 'meat' as per the Universal Dictionary of the English language complied by Henry Cecil Wyld is one which reads as: 'meat'. Food, flesh of animals used as food. The Universal Dictionary published by Readers Digest, New York read: 'meat' as a (I) Edible flesh of mammals, as distinguished from that of fish or poultry. (ii) Edible flesh including poultry and fish and shell flesh, crab meat. The dictionary meaning of beef is (i) fresh of slaughtered full bull, or cow (ii) A full grown bull, ox or cow especially one intended for use as meat. 'Meat' is a generic term of edible flesh which includes beef. In common parlance and even commercially meat means flesh of cattle, swine, sheep, goat etc., and may not include dressed poultry, but the expression 'meat' in its wider connotation does include dressed poultry, R. Fiyaz Ahmed v. Chief Conservator of Forests, Malleswaram, Bangalore, AIR 2001 Kant 492.