{ "model": { "rank": 1136, "code": "thing-meat", "model_id": "vr.tr.meat", "name": "meat", "purpose": "the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/meat/", "tier": 2, "score": 178, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "roast", "joint", "confit", "stew meat", "bird", "fowl", "poultry", "chicken", "poulet", "volaille", "broiler", "capon", "fryer", "frier", "pullet", "roaster", "spatchcock", "hen", "guinea hen", "squab", "dove", "duck", "duckling", "goose", "wildfowl", "grouse", "quail", "partridge", "pheasant", "turkey", "giblet", "giblets", "dark meat", "raw meat", "gobbet", "red meat", "variety meat", "organs", "offal", "liver" ], "aliasCount": 243, "merged": 178, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld", "affordances": [ "graspable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.food", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-07665463-n", "ili": "i77100", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:08:55Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00479638, "turns": 1, "seconds": 60.6, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 80, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b56-6b75-75f0-9008-0fb7b20ee005\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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as food, explicitly including fishes, birds and snails, represented as an identifiable portion or lot whose biological origin, composition and processing history affect its use.", "in_scope": [ "Species and anatomical origin of flesh intended or presented for human consumption", "Physical form, tissue composition and measurable properties of a meat portion or lot", "Raw, cooked, preserved, chilled, frozen and thawed states and their histories", "Evidence relevant to spoilage, contamination, suitability and handling decisions", "Lot provenance, traceability and applicable use restrictions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Living animals, husbandry systems and animal health records except as linked provenance", "Plant-based substitutes and products that imitate meat without containing animal flesh", "Milk, eggs and isolated animal-derived chemicals such as purified collagen", "Whole meals and composite food products beyond their identifiable meat component", "Slaughterhouses, processing equipment and supply-chain organisations as entities", "General dietary advice and individual clinical nutrition decisions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The material is animal flesh used as food; animal origin alone does not make milk, eggs or isolated protein meat.", "Fish, bird and snail flesh qualify under this registry definition even where culinary or regulatory vocabularies classify them separately.", "The referent is a portion or lot of food material, rather than the animal from which it originated.", "A composite product containing meat must distinguish its meat component from added water, binders, coatings and other ingredients.", "Species, anatomical part and processing state distinguish meat instances without requiring a single chemical formula or universal purity grade." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Source animal identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Declared or verified taxon; multiple taxa or unknown; linked identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition, authenticity checks and species-dependent handling or use constraints." }, { "name": "Anatomical and tissue identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named cut or body part; muscle, associated fat, connective tissue, mixed tissue or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes portions with different composition, preparation behaviour and boundary questions." }, { "name": "Physical form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Intact cut, sliced, chopped, minced, mechanically separated or other documented form; bone and skin status", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how the material has been divided or altered and which handling evidence is relevant." }, { "name": "Composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Water, protein, fat and other specified constituents in g/100 g; analytical method and raw/cooked basis", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison and processing decisions without treating variable biological material as a pure substance." }, { "name": "Temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees Celsius; core or surface location, timestamp and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Provides a time-specific observation for evaluating storage and processing history." }, { "name": "Processing and preservation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented combination of raw, cooked, chilled, frozen, thawed, cured, dried, smoked or other treatment", "why_it_matters": "Determines which subsequent actions require evidence and prevents a treatment label from implying safety." }, { "name": "Acidity and water availability", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pH and water activity, dimensionless; method, sampling location and timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Provides product-specific evidence when assessing preservation and stability." }, { "name": "Condition observations", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Recorded colour, odour, texture, exudate and visible deterioration; acceptable, suspect or unassessed against named criteria", "why_it_matters": "Supports condition assessment while keeping sensory observations separate from safety clearance." }, { "name": "Hazard assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Hazard-specific result, method, sampling basis, applicable criterion and assessment date; unknown where untested", "why_it_matters": "Makes the evidence and limits behind a suitability decision explicit." }, { "name": "Lot and custody identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Supplier lot, parent and child lots, processing events and custody records", "why_it_matters": "Maintains traceability through cutting, mixing, repacking and distribution." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and compare meat portions by species, tissue, form and documented composition.", "Trace a portion to source lots and identify related material after splitting or mixing.", "Assess whether storage and processing records support a proposed use.", "Select applicable handling or processing instructions using species, form, state and intended use.", "Flag uncertain identity, missing history or adverse findings for segregation and review.", "Record changes after cutting, mincing, thawing, cooking or preservation and reassess suitability." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "codex-cac-misc-5", "title": "Codex General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods / Codex meat and meat-product texts (CAC/GL and related meat standards)", "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/", "what_it_supports": "International food-standard framing of meat as an animal-derived food commodity and the labelling/identity conventions used in trade.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "eu-853-2004", "title": "Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32004R0853", "what_it_supports": "Legal definitions of meat, fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparations, meat products, and offal in EU food hygiene law.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "codex-meat-hygiene", "title": "Codex Code of Hygienic Practice for Meat (CAC/RCP 58-2005)", "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/codes-of-practice/", "what_it_supports": "Hygienic production, inspection, and handling of meat from slaughter through cutting and distribution.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iarc-red-processed", "title": "IARC Monographs Volume 114: Red Meat and Processed Meat", "url": "https://publications.iarc.who.int/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans/Red-Meat-And-Processed-Meat-2018", "what_it_supports": "Hazard classification of red meat (Group 2A) and processed meat (Group 1) and the distinction between those categories.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "animal-flesh-identity", "name": "Animal flesh identity", "description": "Establish what animal material is present and how it fits this registry sense of meat.", "rationale": "Meat identity depends on biological and anatomical origin, while common names can obscure species and scope.", "layers": [ { "id": "species-and-food-sense", "name": "Species and food sense", "description": "Identify the source animal and the material's use as food.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-taxon-and-intent", "name": "Source taxon and food intent", "description": "Record declared identity, supporting evidence and whether the flesh is intended or presented as food.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which animal taxon or mixture of taxa supplied this flesh, and what evidence supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-taxon-and-intent-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record refer to animal flesh used as food under vr.tr.meat, including fish, bird or snail flesh?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-taxon-and-intent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-boundaries", "name": "Anatomical boundaries", "description": "Locate the portion within the animal and distinguish included tissue from neighbouring materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "cut-and-tissue-membership", "name": "Cut and tissue membership", "description": "Describe the anatomical part and clarify the treatment of associated tissues and non-flesh components.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cut, body region or organ does the portion represent, and which tissues are included?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cut-and-tissue-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Are bone, shell, skin, separate fat or viscera included in the recorded mass, and which require an explicit scope decision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cut-and-tissue-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flesh-composition-and-form", "name": "Flesh composition and form", "description": "Describe the variable material composition and physical organisation of the meat.", "rationale": "Cuts, mixtures and comminuted flesh cannot be represented adequately by a chemical identity or generic purity value.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-and-ingredient-composition", "name": "Tissue and ingredient composition", "description": "Separate native tissue composition from substances added during preparation.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-on-a-stated-basis", "name": "Composition on a stated basis", "description": "Record measured or declared constituents with their measurement basis and distinguish added ingredients.", "questions": [ { "text": "What water, fat and protein values are available, and do they describe the raw, cooked or otherwise processed material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-on-a-stated-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Has water, salt, curing material or another ingredient been added, and is the referent still the meat component or a composite product?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "composition-on-a-stated-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "portion-geometry-and-disruption", "name": "Portion geometry and disruption", "description": "Describe size and physical interventions affecting the flesh.", "findings": [ { "id": "intactness-and-portion-size", "name": "Intactness and portion size", "description": "Record portion dimensions and whether tissue has been minced, injected, tenderised or otherwise disrupted.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the portion mass and relevant dimensions, or the particle-size description for minced material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intactness-and-portion-size-q01" }, { "text": "Which cutting, mincing, injection, mechanical separation or tenderising operations have been applied?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intactness-and-portion-size-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "post-harvest-state-history", "name": "Post-harvest state history", "description": "Track time, temperature and treatments from slaughter or harvest to the present state.", "rationale": "A current label such as chilled or cooked cannot substitute for the history needed to assess meat.", "layers": [ { "id": "thermal-and-storage-history", "name": "Thermal and storage history", "description": "Capture storage intervals, freezing and thawing events, and gaps in temperature evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-temperature-record", "name": "Time-temperature record", "description": "Associate thermal observations with the lot and identify unsupported intervals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What slaughter or harvest, chilling, freezing and thawing times are known for this lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "time-temperature-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which core or surface temperatures were measured during storage and transfer, and where are the record gaps?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-temperature-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-and-maturation", "name": "Preservation and maturation", "description": "Represent cooking, curing, drying, smoking and ageing as documented treatments.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-parameters-and-outcomes", "name": "Treatment parameters and outcomes", "description": "Distinguish a named process from evidence that its intended outcome was achieved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cooking, curing, drying, smoking or ageing treatments occurred, with what recorded parameters?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "treatment-parameters-and-outcomes-q01" }, { "text": "What measurements or validation records support the claimed treatment outcome for this meat?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "treatment-parameters-and-outcomes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-food-suitability", "name": "Condition and food suitability", "description": "Assess observed deterioration and hazard evidence against the proposed use.", "rationale": "Meat condition, safety evidence and intended preparation must remain distinguishable in agent decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "sensory-and-material-condition", "name": "Sensory and material condition", "description": "Record observations of the flesh and its immediate storage environment.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-observations-and-limits", "name": "Condition observations and limits", "description": "Capture visible and sensory changes without treating their absence as proof of safety.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in colour, odour, texture, exudate or surface appearance were observed, and when?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-observations-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Do those observations warrant segregation or further assessment under the applicable product criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-observations-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazards-and-use-criteria", "name": "Hazards and use criteria", "description": "Connect relevant biological, chemical and physical hazard evidence to a specific intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-bounded-suitability", "name": "Evidence-bounded suitability", "description": "Make suitability conditional on applicable criteria, sampling limitations and preparation assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hazard assessments apply to this species, tissue, processing state and intended use, and what results are available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-bounded-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support the proposed use, require further processing or assessment, or require withholding the lot?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-bounded-suitability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "meat-lot-lineage-and-disposition", "name": "Meat lot lineage and disposition", "description": "Maintain provenance and determine which documented actions remain available for a portion or lot.", "rationale": "Cutting and mixing change lot relationships, while identity and use restrictions must follow the resulting meat.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-transformation-lineage", "name": "Source and transformation lineage", "description": "Connect meat to source records and subsequent division or combination events.", "findings": [ { "id": "parent-and-child-meat-lots", "name": "Parent and child meat lots", "description": "Preserve traceability through butchery, mincing, blending and repacking.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which supplier, slaughter or harvest records and parent lots establish the origin of this portion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "parent-and-child-meat-lots-q01" }, { "text": "Which child lots received material from it, and which other meat lots were mixed into it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "parent-and-child-meat-lots-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims-restrictions-and-next-actions", "name": "Claims, restrictions and next actions", "description": "Relate verified claims and applicable restrictions to proposed handling or release.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-use-constraints", "name": "Documented use constraints", "description": "Record the authority and scope of claims or restrictions without inferring them from appearance or species alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which jurisdictional category, certification, supplier instruction or lot restriction applies, and what document supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-use-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence is required before this lot may be released, thawed, cooked, repacked or otherwise redirected?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-use-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "red meat (mammalian skeletal muscle, typically cattle, sheep, pig, goat)", "poultry meat (bird skeletal muscle, typically chicken, turkey, duck)", "fish and fishery flesh (teleost and other aquatic vertebrate muscle)", "game meat (wild-harvested terrestrial animals)", "offal / variety meats (liver, kidney, heart, tongue and other edible viscera)", "processed meat (cured, smoked, fermented, or otherwise preserved products such as ham, bacon, sausages)", "minced / ground meat", "cultured / cell-cultured meat (muscle tissue grown in vitro; legally and commercially distinct in several jurisdictions)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q10990", "note": "item 'meat' as foodstuff (flesh of animals used as food)" }, { "scheme": "HS / Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "02 (meat and edible meat offal); 03 (fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates)", "note": "customs commodity chapters; fish flesh is classified separately from terrestrial meat in trade statistics" }, { "scheme": "CN / Combined Nomenclature (EU)", "value_or_pattern": "0201-0210 (meat and edible offal); 0302-0305 (fish)", "note": "finer species and cut headings used in EU import/export" }, { "scheme": "Codex GSFA food category", "value_or_pattern": "08.0 Meat and meat products, including poultry and game; 09.0 Fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms", "note": "additive-permission categories; Codex splits fish from land-animal meat" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Codex Alimentarius Commission - Code of Hygienic Practice for Meat (CAC/RCP 58-2005) and related meat-product identity standards", "European Union - Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 (hygiene rules for food of animal origin) and Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 / (EU) 2017/625 (official controls)", "United States - USDA FSIS Federal Meat Inspection Act and Poultry Products Inspection Act; 9 CFR inspection and labelling rules", "OIE / WOAH - Terrestrial Animal Health Code (ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection, animal-health restrictions on meat trade)", "ISO - ISO 22000 (food safety management) applied to meat plants; ISO 17604 (carcass sampling for microbiology)", "WHO / IARC - Monograph 114 classifications used in dietary guidance (not a product standard)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Retail cuts and mince sold as a staple protein food (beef steak, pork chops, chicken breast, fish fillets, lamb)", "Industrial ingredient in sausages, burgers, canned meats, ready meals, and pet food", "Religious and cultural food (halal, kosher shechita, Hindu and Buddhist avoidance of certain species)", "Commodity traded as carcasses, boxed primal cuts, frozen blocks, and mechanically separated meat", "Public-health and nutrition programmes (school meals, food-aid protein, dietary guidelines on red/processed meat)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "moisture (typical raw skeletal muscle)", "typical_range": "65-75", "unit": "% by mass" }, { "quantity": "protein (typical raw lean muscle)", "typical_range": "18-23", "unit": "% by mass" }, { "quantity": "intramuscular and dissectible fat (cut-dependent)", "typical_range": "1-30+", "unit": "% by mass" }, { "quantity": "water activity (aw) of fresh meat", "typical_range": "0.98-0.99", "unit": "dimensionless" }, { "quantity": "pH of post-rigor muscle (normal)", "typical_range": "5.4-5.8", "unit": "pH units" }, { "quantity": "chilled storage temperature (fresh meat)", "typical_range": "0-4", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "centre cook temperature for poultry (food-safety target, USDA)", "typical_range": "74 (165 °F)", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "aerobic plate count at end of shelf life (order of magnitude, chilled)", "typical_range": "10^6-10^8", "unit": "CFU/g" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Pathogenic contamination (Salmonella, Campylobacter, STEC/E. coli O157, Listeria, Clostridium perfringens, parasites such as Trichinella and Toxoplasma)", "Spoilage by Pseudomonas and lactic acid bacteria under chill; putrefaction if temperature abused", "Toxin formation (botulinum in anaerobic under-processed canned or vacuum-packed products; histamine in scombroid fish)", "Chemical residues (veterinary drugs, heavy metals in some fish, nitrosamines in cured meats)", "Chronic dietary hazards: processed meat classified IARC Group 1, red meat Group 2A (colorectal cancer association)", "Allergenicity of specific species (fish, shellfish; also alpha-gal syndrome after tick bite, reacting to mammalian meat)", "Quality defects: DFD (dark, firm, dry) from high ultimate pH; PSE (pale, soft, exudative) from rapid pH drop; freezer burn; rancidity of fat" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "EU legal 'meat' in 853/2004 is edible parts of domestic ungulates, poultry, lagomorphs, farmed game and wild game; fish are 'fishery products', not 'meat'", "Codex and many nutrition texts include fish, birds and snails in a broad 'flesh food' sense; trade HS codes split chapters 02 and 03", "US retail and USDA 'meat' historically centres on livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats); poultry is inspected under a separate statute", "Halal and kosher rules restrict species (no pork; kosher also excludes shellfish and requires shechita) and blood removal", "Naming of cuts differs sharply (US vs UK vs French primal/retail cut maps; 'mince' vs 'ground beef')", "Horse, dog, guinea pig, insect and snail consumption is ordinary in some regions and prohibited or taboo in others" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "meat (other registry sense)", "difference": "This model is the foodstuff (animal flesh used as food). The duplicate batch name is a different sense and must not be merged; test is whether the referent is edible tissue of an animal." }, { "name": "muscle / skeletal muscle (anatomical tissue)", "difference": "Anatomy describes living or dissected tissue regardless of food use; meat is that tissue after slaughter (or harvest) when it is a food commodity, usually including fat and connective tissue." }, { "name": "carcass", "difference": "The dressed body after slaughter; meat is the edible tissue derived from it (and from offal). A carcass is a unit of trade and inspection, not a culinary cut." }, { "name": "protein (nutrient)", "difference": "Protein is a macronutrient class present in meat, dairy, legumes and many other foods; meat is the animal-tissue food, not the molecule." }, { "name": "meat analogue / plant-based 'meat'", "difference": "Formulated from plants, fungi or fermentation to mimic meat; contains no slaughtered-animal muscle. Label and legal identity are non-meat in most jurisdictions." }, { "name": "offal vs skeletal meat", "difference": "Offal is viscera and other non-skeletal edible parts; many legal definitions include it in 'meat' but retail and nutrition often list it separately." }, { "name": "fish as 'seafood' rather than 'meat'", "difference": "Culinary and EU hygiene law treat fishery products as a separate category; the sense researched here includes fish flesh as meat in the broad English/food-anthropology sense." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of meat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "How does the other registry entry named meat differ from vr.tr.meat, and does an existing world model already cover this exact sense?", "Where does this registry draw the boundary for edible organs, blood, separately rendered fat, skin and other animal tissues?", "How should cultivated animal tissue be classified relative to the definition of animal flesh used as food?", "At what point do added ingredients or structural transformation make the whole referent a composite food product with a linked meat component?", "Which authoritative sources establish species-, form-, process- and jurisdiction-specific criteria for hazards, storage, shelf life and permitted use?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "chemical substance or material", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a meat, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "picked up and handled" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: roast, joint, confit, stew meat, bird, fowl, poultry, chicken, poulet, volaille, broiler, capon.", "178 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a meat, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Fits in a hand and is carried without help.", "Moved by a person without machinery.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "pick it up, hold it, put it somewhere else" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "roast", "joint", "confit", "stew meat", "bird", "fowl", "poultry", "chicken", "poulet", "volaille", "broiler", "capon" ] } ], "standing": "178 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one meat from another, and a meat from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a meat sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a meat from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a meat is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at handheld scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a meat is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", 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"description": "Where a meat is, how it got there and where it may go (portable).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a meat is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a meat is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a meat passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a meat between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a meat, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation 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may an agent decide or do once the use of a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a meat.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a meat at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What meat is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name meat unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of meat exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How meat behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of meat, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is meat incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How meat can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits 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"answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a meat is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a meat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a meat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a meat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 19, "findings": 21, "questions": 57 } } } }