Sentences with phrase «animals and the environment by»

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There I was fascinated by the incredibly unique culture and environment: Did you know that 80 % of the plants and animals found in Madagascar don't exist anywhere else on the planet?

But long forgotten then and completely forgotten now is the enrichment delivered by those exchanges with discoveries such as Hemlo, Eskay Creek, Voisey's Bay, DiaMet, Aber... and the list goes on, with billion upon billions of dollars in new wealth created in an environment of laissez - faire capitalism and animal spirits.

When I was comparing humanity to the animal world, I was referring to the diversity in behaviour and the associated perceptions (assuming animal behaviour is driven by perception of their environment).

It is also to recognize that all entities — from protons through living cells to animals and galaxies — are formed by their relations to their environments.

Biologists have, since pre-evolutionary days, been fascinated by instances of structural parallelisms in not closely related animals and plants that exploit similar environments in similar ways.

Such types of animal minds, evolved in relation to a reciprocal interaction between the selection of environment by animal and of animal by environment, are what we refer to rather crudely as instincts.

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

The uniqueness of Man is shown by the fact that there is no real intellect in the animals — even the higher apes show no propensity for learning other languages, for mathematics, science or art; nor do animals show evidence of free will — they are completely constrained by the material environment and by instinct.

We're polluting our oceans, destroying rain forests, changing ecological environments by damming rivers, causing the extinction of animal species, and so on.

The last element of analysis has to do with the particular theological heritage that has influenced many of our congregations, especially in regard to two issues The first is the false spirituality that sees little connection between faith and questions of material well - being, the environment, and so forth ~ The sermon deals with that by stressing God's concern for all of creation, even the animals.

-LSB-...] The animal life seeks the full unfolding of its life - law, in times and seasons by the interplay of its being with the environment in which it lives, and moves and has its whole limited being.

They are committed to serving Food with Integrity by finding the best natural ingredients raised with respect to the animals, environment and farmers.

With interest growing in the Meat Free Monday campaign, Paul also points out that vegetarian cuisine needs to show what it can do, not only to counter certain false impressions, but to capitalise on the increasing numbers of people doing their bit for the environment and animal welfare by eating less meat.

While just under half (49 %) of those who are curbing their meat intake or were interested in doing so said it was for health reasons — followed by weight - loss (29 %) and the environment joint third with animal welfare on 24 % — it's reassuring to see young people leading the way in terms of green eating.

A production line for the ultra-filtration of whey was also installed to separate proteins for refined whey products (whey protein additives for the food industry) and also a filter for reversed osmosis treatment of the permeate from ultra-filtration to concentrate the liquid for production of animal feed, which is sold as a by product (the cleaned water can then be disposed of in waste water systems and discharged to the environment).

The app's creators point out that concerns for the environment, animal welfare and human rights has already led to meat consumption per person dropping by 4 per cent in EU countries, 10 per cent in the US and 12 per cent in Canada.

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».

Further promoted advantages and promises by the industry include that RR crops create more yield than conventional crops, decrease farmers input costs by reducing the amount of herbicides sprayed and are safe for humans, animals and the environment.

According to new research by Innova Market Insights, concerns around products that are «good for me, good for the planet» are increasing, providing opportunities for ingredients that can support sustainability and ethics claims in relation to humans, animals and the environment.

By respecting the natural capacity of plants, animals and the landscape, organic agriculture aims to optimize quality in all aspects of agriculture and the environment.

We believe that it is critical that government heeds changing community expectations by supporting the growth and viability of regenerative agriculture while protecting the environment and human and animal health.

«Students don't want to support an industry that slaughters nearly 2 million animals every hour, devastates the environment, and contributes to human disease, and schools are responding by rapidly increasing their cruelty - free options, from vegan ravioli to nondairy chocolate mousse.»

I will help spare animals from factory farms and slaughter, reduce my impact on the environment, and improve my health by taking a holiday from meat and enjoying delicious vegetarian foods every Monday.

In addition to doing right by farmers and the environment, the young company wants to help save the wild animals that also call Costa Rica home by donating 5 % of the utility of each purchase to the Jaguar Rescue Center — a non-profit with a mission that is as unique as Break The Cup's fermentation process.

The answers to the long - range problem of bringing back and maintaining a healthy, productive environment — for both people and animals — may well lie in research work already started in south Texas by Dr. Clarence Cottam, the director of a new and unique institution called the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation.

Every bit helps the animals, the environment (by eating lower on the food chain, agriculture is less destructive), and your own health.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

Felines by nature are known to be very fussy animals and us as cat owners must make the right decision to cater to our beloved pets so they are happy, and we are happy living in a clean environment where accidents don't occur.

Climate change amplifies existing risks to our natural resources by forcing plants and animals to adapt rapidly to a changing environment.

We can't forget that the majority of ground beef in the United States, even if free of said «slime», comes from animals (35 million beef cattle, to be exact) that are treated miserably, is processed by employees under horrible working conditions, and severely damages the environment.

These core areas emphasize responding and providing support in times of emergency, nursing animals back to health, returning animals back to their environments or providing a home for those that are deemed non-releasable by wildlife officials.

The deaths of all but 120 of the badgers being culled will be checked by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs via a phone call to the marksmen - a move animal welfare groups has responded to with disbelief.

They also believe that rearing animals for food is bad for the environment and inefficient and suggest that world food shortages could be solved by farming crops rather than animals.

Environment columnist Allison Weis discusses Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new legislation outlawing elephant abuse and how we can take it further by valuing all animals.

It follows a concerted effort by the party and Michael Gove, the environment secretary, to counter social media campaigns denouncing the party's record on animal rights.

Organic food is felt by a growing number of consumers to be safer, more nutritious, taste better and to be less harmful to the environment and animal welfare than conventionally produced food, and the market for it has grown in recent years accordingly.

The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the eEnvironment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the environmentenvironment.

The shadow environment secretary, Sue Hayman, called the announcement weak and said Labour's plan went further by proposing a ban on transporting live animals for slaughter or fattening.

The researchers call this newly - discovered ACS - mediated mechanism a «lipid sensor» and believe it could be a widespread strategy by which animals translate cues from the environment into physiological responses.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients occur naturally in the environment and are needed by plants and animals to grow, but too much of any of them is harmful.

Sunday's vote ended an energetic campaign by Swiss biologists to convince the public that transgenic laboratory animals are essential to biomedical research, and that genetic engineering can provide benefits without posing a serious threat to the environment.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

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.

Many animals actively touch objects in their environment and respond to them by appropriate movement sequences.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

Some time between 700 and 600 million years ago, early multicellular animals appear to have burrowed and grazed the mats to destruction — showing that humans are by no means the first to overexploit their environment.

Whiting hopes his research findings serve to inform the public that the alligator was here first, and we should act accordingly by preserving the animal's wild populations and its environment.

«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).

Litter is a problem in the marine environment as it can be mistaken for food and eaten by some animals or can entangle coral and fish — a process known as «ghost fishing.»