Sentences with phrase «animals as breeding»

Cloning animals is currently too expensive to be practical for food production, but farmers could clone top - quality animals as breeding stock.

First, dogs may not develop signs until late in life, making it difficult to avoid using affected animals as breeding stock.

Not exact matches

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

An economics that understands this destiny will yield societies happier and healthier than the ones that see man as an animal raping the earth and breeding to his own destruction.

You do realize that your analogy is totally ridiculous, as both of the animals you mentioned are domesticated and easily bred?

«The phenotypic and genomic data collected as part of the MDC project will improve the accuracy of estimated breeding values (EBVs) describing economically important reproduction traits in animals, related to the Kaiuroo herd, throughout the Brahman breed.»

An exception is made for harvest of breeding stock and where replacement animals are not technically possible from organic sources — in this case they must be maintained under organic conditions for at least two - thirds of the production cycle before they are sold as organic.

More than 80 percent of breeding pigs in the U.S. are confined day and night during their four - month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals» bodies, preventing them from even turning around.

In the pork industry, the vast majority of breeding pigs are confined day and night during their four - month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals» bodies, preventing them from even turning around.

This trend is just as visible in animals: 740 animal breeds became extinct during the twentieth century.

Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones, limiting vaccine use, not using routine antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.

Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones or antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.

Pork: In 2012, Aramark committed to eliminate all pork from animals bred using gestation crates by 2017; it will also work to address issues of pain relief associated with castration and the eventual elimination of tail docking, as well as eventual elimination of the use of ractopamine.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

Inbreeding by scab breeders and kennel owners has resulted in a deterioration of the line of many popular breeds such as poodles, Bedlingtons and boxers, sometimes creating a specific brain disorder, which means that the animal has to be destroyed.

Other experts note that animals that have been bred for protective traits, such as chows and rottweilers, may not be the best choice for families with children.

Even under the best conditions on supposedly «humane» farms, the animals often come from breeding facilities that kill the males by inhumane methods (egg hatcheries where most laying hens come from) or the mothers are not allowed to do what comes naturally during pregnancy and their babies are taken away after a few days or less (as in the dairy industry).

As you mentioned, the issue of mold growth on filters is a concern, however, we have had NO mold growth with the Demineralization filter from Crane because it isn't your typical spongey filter that can be a breeding ground for all the yuckies that can grow... We love our Crane humidifier in our house, especially the kids because of the different animals (ADORABLES) that they each have in their rooms (mom and dad have the DROP humidifier in our bedroom

People who are so callous towards animals shouldn't be breeding & raising people that might be just as callous as them.

They can talk with the printer, potter, and blacksmith as they work, ride a stagecoach, tour our gardens, and meet our Heritage breed farm animals,» notes Ann Lindblad, OSV vice president of communications.

Your membership also provides the Village with the support necessary to care for our historic buildings, priceless collection of early American artifacts, heritage breed animals and heirloom gardens as well as our expert costumed interpreters and outstanding educational programming for both the general public and school children alike.

She is aiming to crackdown on commercial dog breeding facilities known as puppy mills and ensure that pet dealers are selling healthy animals from safe sources.

«There are also skills shortages in areas of expertise such as plant and crop breeding, plant physiology and pest management, large animal physiology and health, soil science, and horticulture,» she says.

Many European zoos allow captive animals such as giraffes to breed as they would in the wild, while American zoos generally use contraceptives to prevent pregnancies outside of breeding programs.

That's a sign that these animals had lost their fear of humans, even without the researchers deliberately breeding the most human - friendly mice, as scientists had done with the foxes.

In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

The genetic traits of those lost breeds may turn out to be important, especially as animals spread across the continent and contend with different climates.

As Goderie releases his first 40 animals in the Côa Valley, other breeders are raising back - bred herds.

In zoos, the different giraffe types now being proposed as separate species did the one thing that has traditionally defined animals as a single species: They bred together and produced what seemed like viable offspring.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

The mature transgenic animals were bred usually with nontransgenic goats as a first step toward producing a herd.

At one time there were at least 140,000 Clydesdales known in Scotland; by 1949 just 80 animals were licensed in England and by 1975 the Rare Breed Survival Trust had listed the breed as «vulnerable&raBreed Survival Trust had listed the breed as «vulnerable&rabreed as «vulnerable».

And if animals do undergo size changes with future climate change, as Secord points out, we are not going to be seeing smaller race horses — unless we breed them that way.

Previous research showed that animals that breed in this way are more likely to live in harsher climates, such as deserts, than those who go it alone.

For species such as scrub jays, once conservationists know which genes work best and when, they can in theory be better matchmakers in breeding endangered animals.

And it's arresting to learn that Thomas Hunt Morgan turned to the fruit fly, Drosophila, as a tool for genetics experiments not, as we are usually informed, because it bred quickly on cheap food, but because he had no funds with which to purchase larger animals.

They also share the behavioral traits of domesticated animals, such as reduced aggression, despite never having undergone selective breeding.

The only examples of such sustainable hunting, however, are either among people who have almost no contact with other human beings, such as the indigenous Aché people in the forests of eastern Paraguay, or those who have already killed off local populations of slow - breeding animals as is evidenced in the bushmeat market in Takoradi, Ghana.

Use [animals in captivity] as education, interaction, breeding researchall of that.

This regime can be even more conducive for breeding resistance, as can low doses in animal feed or in agriculture — or in antibacterial products like plastics, household cleaners, soaps, and toothpaste, a more recent menace.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

Also needed is more investment in livestock research, such as breeding for hardier animals.

Scientists studying blue whales in the waters of Chile through DNA profiling and photo - identification may have solved the mystery of where these huge animals go to breed, as revealed by a single female blue whale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

«They could serve as breeding grounds and seed banks for many animal and plant species that otherwise may be unable to find habitat due to climate change.»

It demonstrates too the value of captive breeding, even for such a diverse group as this: not only to preserve at least some threatened species, but also to provide contact between humans and animals, and promote human understanding, without which all conservation is doomed.

They favor banning imports of wild - caught amphibians but allowing the sale of animals bred in captivity, even if they come from Asia, as long as they are quarantined and tested.