title: It seemed important to provide you the readers and contributors to Meat Science with a brief personal profile of myself.
authors.affiliation: NSW Department of Primary Industries, Centre for Red Meat and Sheep Development, NSW 2794, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hopkins
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005524:Food Technology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008460:Meat; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D034561:Sheep, Domestic