Sentences with phrase «animal feedlots»

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

I would like to see more people get involved in protesting against GMO, cruel animal feedlots, battery chicken, poor / inadequate food labelling, over-regulation of complimentary medicines and supplements etc..

Fertilizers running off of vast agricultural fields and animal feedlots in the former Soviet Union were a primary cause.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

If fenugreek sprouts were the source, they were probably contaminated by runoff from an animal feedlot or from fresh manure or sewage, since E. coli grows only in human or animal intestines.

Not exact matches

The quality does count and when I talk about saturated fats, I am not referring to french fry grease and caged feedlot animals.

It should be noted that the feedlot is also a popular farming tool because it keeps the animals all in one small enclosure — which makes it easier for them to be treated with hormones and antibiotics.

«The vast majority of these massive, industrial - scale facilities, some managing 10,000 - 20,000 head of cattle, and upwards of 1 million laying hens, had 100 % of their animals confined in giant buildings or feedlots.»

«In Bahrain we watched MLA staff at the main feedlot ensuring sheep were not going into boots, but they seemed oblivious to the fact that small trucks were regularly leaving the feedlot with more animals that could be needed for individual purchasers.

Research conducted since 1999 shows that grazing animals have from 3 - 5 times more CLA than animals fattened on grain in a feedlot.

The animals from which our meat comes must spend their entire life on the farm — absolutely no CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) or feedlots.

Fast - tracking safeguards in Indonesia is also the only way to help the tens of thousands of animals currently in Indonesian feedlots who are being, and will continue to be, treated in exactly the same way as the poor animals we saw on Four Corners three weeks ago.

After Animals Australia's investigation footage went to air, Qatar livestock importers implement new rules for transport of sheep from feedlots to ensure sheep are not being transported in car boots following the similar ban in Bahrain in 2008.

In other words, the WTO is perfectly capable of putting beef produced from animals raised ankle - deep in their own faeces on feedlots on an equal footing with beef produced from grass - fed animals.

However, feed intake evaluations are typically done in the feedlot, potentially misrepresenting the efficiency of the animal over her lifespan.

Conventionally, feedlot managers would divert this liquid into huge, smelly ponds or lagoons — some 10 - feet deep or more, explains Bryan L. Woodbury, an agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Nebraska.

A feedlot is an animal feeding operation in commercial animal farming.

However, cut the fat off of feedlot and factory - raised meat because toxins are stored in fat, and these animals have been exposed to pesticide - laden grains.

Animals are cooped up in pens or giant feedlots eating food they weren't designed to eat instead of roaming free eating the nutrient rich wild grains and grasses they once consumed.

There are certainly many vidoes that address things like saturated fat that shows that adding even more fat to meat with rich feed like grain rather than leaner pastured animals is a bad thing without having to specifically address feedlot finished versus grass finished beef.

The Foundation supports raising animals on pasture as much of the year as possible, and opposes confinement operations, feedlots, debeaking, growth hormones, routine antibiotics in feed, inappropriate feed such as soy, and other practices that harm animals» health and well - being, harm the environment, and result in animal foods that are not optimally nutritious for humans.

I certainly haven't, as long as the animals are treated and kept well, according to their species needs (i.e. not confining them to a feedlot).

Each day that an animal spends in the feedlot, its supply of omega - 3s is diminished.

Research conducted since 1999 shows that grazing animals have from 3 to 5 times more CLA than animals fattened on grain in a feedlot.

For the most part, small local farms do not use feedlots, rather, the animals (cows, chickens, pigs) are allowed to range freely, outside, on pasture.

F Unlike pasture raised animals, grain fed cattle are often raised on grass early in their lives, then moved to a feedlot where they are fed rations composed of 70 to 90 percent grain.

You could not crowd animals into these feedlots or feed them this highly concentrated ration without giving them antibiotics.

The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

Most technicians work in private clinical practices, but jobs are available in any other profession or industry that involves the use or care of animals, such as zoos, rescue centers, veterinary teaching hospitals, humane societies, research facilities, feedlots, pharmaceutical companies, and wildlife or exotic animal rehabilitation centers.

Recently an animal advocate challenged another advocate for using the word cow for an animal who was probably a steer — a castrated bull in a feedlot.

They're also rendered byproducts from slaughterhouses and processing plants, dead animals from ranches, farms, animal shelters, feedlots and other facilities, and food waste, including fat and grease, from restaurants and stores.

In addition to his experience in mixed - animal medicine, Harper consulted with feedlot, stocker and cow / calf operators in all areas of preventive health and health management.

Meal and bone «meal» (on your ingredient list) means that «dead animals from farms, ranches, feedlots, marketing barns, animal shelters, and other facilities; and fats, grease, and other food waste from restaurants and stores.»

In addition to mixed - animal medicine, Harper consulted with feedlot, stocker and cow / calf operators in all areas of preventive health and health management.

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Working through committees are bills that would stop the common feedlot practice of feeding antibiotics to food animals that aren't sick, prevent felons convicted of animal cruelty from owning animals for a court - ordered period and require the neutering of unlicensed dogs and cats to reduce euthanasia.

Independent plants obtain animal by - product materials, including grease, blood, feathers, offal, and entire animal carcasses, from the following sources: butcher shops, supermarkets, restaurants, fast - food chains, poultry processors, slaughterhouses, farms, ranches, feedlots, and animal shelters.»

Examples of this are patchwork compositions of aerial images showing oil pumps in Denver or the feedlots in Texas that are used to intensify animal farming by speeding up the life process of cows.

If you think it takes a lot of chemicals to keep animals alive in feedlots, just think what it will take in a laboratory.

Animals are raised on pasture rather than being fattened on a feedlot or in a confined facility.

Specifically under fire are concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, the large - scale feedlots where thousands of dairy cattle, poultry and pigs are confined for their entire lives.

In theory, a plant - based diet avoids consuming animals but it certainly isn't getting cows out of feedlots.

There is meat produced in small batches, from ranchers that keep their animals not in feedlots standing in their own manure but in pastureland.