What causes various types of meat to be the colour that they are?

Subject: What causes various types of meat to be the colour that they are?

Date: Tue Apr 22 02:43:56 1997
Posted by Sean Maynard
Grade level: other
School: Curiosity U
City: Toronto State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 861695036.Gb

Message:

For example, what makes chicken meat white and cow meat red?
Also what accounts for the variances in colour within a specific
animal such as a turkey ie. white and dark meat?

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