Sentences with phrase «animals and the environment at»

Public action can take on many forms, including boycotting Nestlé brands, helping to spread the word about Nestlé's unethical business practices, and putting pressure on the government to pass legislation that would prevent Nestlé from doing things that put people, animals and the environment at risk.

Not exact matches

Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).

Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiand of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiand of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiand who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiAnd what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiand externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentialiand as an active potentiality.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

The organism draws its genes from an enormously variegated gene pool; it develops under the influence of them and also under those of a probably pretty heterogeneous environment; and, at any given stage of its life, the way its genes and its previous environment have acted up to that point may have considerable effect on the nature of the environment to which it will next be subjected — if the animal does not like it here it may migrate someplace else, and so on.

According to Mintel's Global New Products Database (GNPD), 52 % of US adults placed taste at the forefront when following a plant - based diet, outranking health (39 % of respondents), the environment (13 %), animal protection (10 %) and concerns over diet (10 %).

Leaving meat, eggs and dairy off your plate one day (or even one meal) at a time can make a massive difference to our environment, and obviously our animals.

But transforming animal agriculture isn't enough — particularly when the environment, and our health are at stake.

«Nutritionists, political economists and epidemiologists at Oxford will study how animal foods affect health and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our Health.

Eric Gall, IFOAM EU Policy Manager, added: «It is time for the European Commission to act in line with the precautionary principle to protect the environment and consumers by confirming that plants and animals genetically modified with new technologies will at least be regulated like existing GMOs, and be subject to rigorous risk assessment, traceability and labelling, which are cornerstones of EU environmental and food policies».

I agree with this comment, as well as with the others on industrial agriculture, though I do want to mention that there are small town, local and organic farmers out there who treat animals and the environment well — while I do not support the dairy or egg industry, I love to see our friend Bob's hens running around wild, pecking at bugs, etc. and we will eat those eggs, which are seasonal because hens naturally lay more during certain times of the year.

Not to mention how wildly unsustainable the whole farming system in America is and biotech is is promoting this farming system / diet throughout the world along with food processors like Campbell's, claiming safety but not looking at all the other more important issues like environment, biodiversity, sustainability, animal welfare and the health of consumers.

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar is expected to be on hand at 11 a.m. to present Animal Adventure «with a citation for its work in providing these animals with a safe and appropriate environment,» a park press release said.

We, concerned Ghanaians and Pan-Africanists at home and in the Diaspora, have read and watched with concern reports on the damaging effect of illegal mining on human lives, animals and the Ghanaian environment.

«Under the microscope, eggs from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

To mimic this obesogenic environment, the teams led by Mara Dierssen at CRG and Rafael Maldonado at UPF offered mice the option of a high - fat «cafeteria» diet or a mixture of chopped - up commercial chocolate bars alongside their regular lab chow, before carrying out a detailed analysis of the animals» activity and feeding behaviour.

But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

The new research, presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich, suggests that exposure to the microbial environment in animal skin and fur could have a protective effect against asthma and allergies.

Researchers are taking another look at dirt eating and discovering that the behavior often provides people and animals with vital minerals and inactivates toxins from food and the environment.

Passive robots in the form of sedentary animals may be less flashy than a bird skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.

Faced with possible threats — whether from disgruntled insiders with access to hazardous agents or from outsiders such as computer hackers or animal rights extremists — research institutions must develop security measures that do not compromise the creativity and risk - taking that is at the heart of a research environment.

Others provide data on the environment at the time they were collected, or hold the key to the evolution of particular groups of animals and plants.

«It's an innovative way of getting at the problem» of what animals know about their environments, says Karen McComb, an expert in mammal communication and cognition at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

And so researchers at Sweden's Lund University were recently surprised to find that the visual systems of some animals actually make collisions within their environment more, rather than less, likely.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

If there had been a centralized database tracking pathogen profiles in animals, food and the environment — information that already exists at some level within disparate agricultural, food and drug, and human health agencies — it wouldn't have taken so long to isolate the cause of the outbreak, says Fisman.

A team at the OU's Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) research group is working on an ambitious partnership worth around # 250,000 with a UK SME, and funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to develop a new type of biodegradable single - use plastic carrier bags that is recyclable, biodegradable and will have no harmful effects on plants or animals.

Research efforts are aimed at enhancing the quality of life for animals and people, improving the productivity of poultry and livestock, and preserving a healthy interface between wildlife and people in the environment they share.

We are arriving at the cusp of an era where we will have the ability to look at thousands of cells and monitor their activity in animals that are doing things in real environments or, more powerfully, in virtual reality environments.

Not only can you see how their structure changes, but you can at the same time see how they react to specific stimuli and perhaps how their reaction changes over weeks when the animal adapts to its environment.

The team was also surprised to find that reconstructions of the environment around Lomekwi at 3.3 million years ago, from the associated animal fossils and isotopic analyses of the site's soil, indicate the area was much more wooded than paleoenvironments associated with later East African artifact sites from after 2.6 million years.

«She strategically picked an organism to gain insight into early animal evolution and systematically studied it,» said Dianne Newman, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who studies how bacteria coevolve with their environment.

The animal house and animal facilities at the CNB - CSIC have been registered at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, regarding the use of animals in experimentation, with nº 28079 -29-A; and at the Ministry for the Environment, through the National Commission on Biosafety, regarding the experiments with genetically modified mice (both transgenic and knockout) under risk type II, with nº A / ES / 03 / I - 5.

That effort has been helped by extra funding from the Australian government (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to look at pheromones and spawning - site choice in toads; from the Invasive Animals Co-Operative Research Centre to explore effects of parasites on toads in Queensland; and from the Western Australians Department of Environment & Conservation, to understand frog and toad parasites at the toad invasion front.

The main research activity (located in central Paris and vicinity at Orsay) regroups to date 16 technology platforms and services offering state ‐ of ‐ the - art expertise and equipment from small molecule chemistry to omcs, super-resolution microscopy, sophisticated radiation sources and various animal models, including xenografts directly derived from patients, in order to promote the best environment and support for research activities.

The environment in which the PETM took place was therefore very different to that of the Cretaceous, and many modern groups of plants and animals were diversifying at this time.

My research is aimed at discovering how animal visual systems and brains function in their specific environment in order to understand some of the evolutionary pressures that lead to the behaviour and coloration we observe today.

I encourage all my patients to eliminate — or at least reduce — their intake of animal products in honor of their health, the environment, and animal rights.

Currently, silver nanoparticles are present in the environment at the concentrations that are about one in a thousandth times the dose that would be toxic to fish and other marine animals (23).

Cruelty - Free Products: Juice beauty is proud to bear logos and seals that prove how much we care about the environment, animals, and people's health when formulating our products, and at the very core of our company.

I can't imagine that anyone who supports the abuse of women would be also interested in Predominantly Plant - Based nutrition choices aimed at protecting animals and the environment.

Their mutual love for animals and years of experience grooming has created the ideal environment and a wonderful team here at D'Tails.

Here at Prime Beauty, we are super fans of Jane Iredale skin care and makeup as well as her commitments to the environment, animals, her local community and the world at large.

The game is being showcased this year at E3 2016 to unveil its new features: a new environment, new vehicles, a new animal to breed, and new gameplay mechanics that increase the game's richness and depth every year, but also to make it more accessible for both existing fans and new players.

At least three lessons worth of resources on Christian views on the Environment - animal rights, including lesson objectives, starter and plenary activities, homework tasks, video clip links and more encouraging students to consider religious and their own perspectives on animal rights.

Content: Awareness and respect for living things; Recognition of basic colours; Understanding of growth; Introduction to birth and life cycles; Body awareness; Personal safety; Understanding of the seasons; Naming young animals; Learning about small creatures; Respect and care for the environment; Awareness of similarities and differences; Looking at patternsand change; Understanding past and present; Knowledge of night and day; Observation of weather; Questioning and predicting.

At least three lessons worth of resources on Christian views on the Environment - animal rights, including lesson objectives, starter and plenary a...

AnimalKind lesson plan 10 (from a set of 23) View / order the accompanying resources and AnimalKind film at: www.AnimalKind.org.uk Objectives: • To understand that the local environment (school grounds) affords a variety of habitats that meet the basic needs of a range of animals and plants, which depend on each other in an interconnected way called an ecosystem.

In January, the school council at Boothroyd Primary Academy also hosted its own version of «Question Time» by interviewing MP Paula Sherriff on how her role supports the people of Dewsbury, and by asking what more could be done to save the local and wider environment as well as endangered animals.