Sentences with phrase «around pigs farms»

Real - time information from sensors peppered around pigs farms, could herald an era of healthier and faster growing animals

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For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

Eighty million of the ninety - five million pigs raised each year in America live on an industrial farm; more than 80 percent of those farms house around five thousand pigs each.

The measure bans the intensive confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in tiny crates on corporate factory farms, where the animals can not turn around or stretch their limbs.

But then the waitress brings a plate of salami, his face lights up and he changes tack, telling me he's recently become a part - owner of a pig farm on the Yorke Peninsula («It's called Pork on the Yorke», he says, laughing — it's not), and that he's considering getting a piglet as a pet to follow him around at Seppeltsfield («fuck they're funny animals!»).

«Individual consumers and major food companies alike have sent the message loud and clear that they don't support forcing pigs to spend their lives crammed inside cages so small they can't even turn around,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for The HSUS.

«Sound science and consumer sentiment support a move away from immobilizing pigs in crates so small they can't even turn around,» stated Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The HSUS.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

For example, in the case of Jonai Farms where there are just 12 sows (so a total herd of around 110 pigs at any given time) on 9ha of paddocks, the 250m buffer zone from rural dwellings recommended by Australia Pork Limited (APL) is actually wider than the pig paddocks in their entirety, and yet at times there are no pigs visible in a one - acre paddock due to low stocking densities.

Many farm pigs spend the majority of their lives confined in small gestation crates that do not allow them enough room to turn around.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

European hunter - gatherers began farming pigs around 4600 BC, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr Ben Krause - Kyora from the Christian - Albrechts...

If you don't end up buying anything (but that's not likely to happen) then at least you can take part in some of the entertainment on offer to just spend a few hours watching the pigs and ducks running around the farm and enjoy the country feel of the Fever Tree Market.

When your pants are made in Bangladesh, your cellphone components require minerals from gorilla habitat in Congo, your next deadly flu threat comes from a poultry / pig farm in China and your (and China's) emissions (slowly) influence the climate and coastal future around the world, where do your interests — and responsibilities — end?

These are the thoughts of Mirra — the camera - wielding, vegetarian half of The Perennial Plate — whose foodie road trip around the US has explored a halal slaughterhouse in Queens, trapping and killing feral pigs in Texas and rooftop farming and community gardening in New York.