Sentences with phrase «as factory farms»

Also known as factory farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations G), these facilities confine thousands (and, in some cases, hundreds of thousands) of animals in cramped conditions without access to the outdoors.

Pigs from free - range and organic farms end their lives in the same slaughterhouses as factory farmed animals.

As far as factory farming goes, do you and / or your kids know what happens to spent hens and male chicks?

Factory farmed fruits & veggies are just as bad for you as factory farmed meats are for you.

Think of it as a factory farm for puppies.

As factory farming has grown over the years, competition has increased and the pressure on farmers to keep the price of food low has remained steady.

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As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

The captains of England's Industrial Revolution locked the doors of their factories during their 12 - hour workdays because the former farmhands on the assembly lines had a habit of wandering off for a snooze whenever they felt like it as they used to back on the farm.

Going forward, the meat value chain could be simplified dramatically, as the «clean meat» lab or factory could take the place of farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses.

The number of agricultural businesses registered with the WCB — it's a little misleading to refer to these businesses simply as «farms» since many of them are more like farm - products factories — has increased a similar amount, by 107 per cent.

GFI's Managing Director for Israel will serve as an independent contractor orchestrating the regional expansion of our efforts to replace factory - farmed products with plant - based and

GFI's Managing Director for Israel will serve as an independent contractor orchestrating the regional expansion of our efforts to replace factory - farmed products with plant - based and clean meat.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

It is interesting that those who argue so vigorously for new plants as ways of bringing jobs do not often argue in favor of substituting labor - intensive for energy - intensive means of production in either farm or factory.

As Christ was present to the four by the Sea of Galilee, so is he present in the workplace you and I inhabit: kitchens, farms, offices, schools, factories, drilling grounds, laboratories, studios.

hmm... wonder what kind of good analogies could be drawn from free - range, antibiotic - reduced, hormone free, organic farming (as opposed to feedlot, factory - farmed churchianity)

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

It's funny how raw eggs were traditionally consumed as nutritional supplements, but now that practice is almost entirely forgotten in modern culture (perhaps because factory farmed eggs pose a bigger danger than real farm fresh eggs).

The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle, sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...

What began as a 21,000 bph (birds per hour) factory and farming site, became a 37,000 bph facility in the space of just three years.

COLES will stop selling company branded pork, ham and bacon from pigs kept in crammed stalls as well as company branded caged eggs from January, meeting a commitment by the company to phase out the factory farming practices a year early.

The announcement comes as Animals Australia, the group that uncovered the cruelty to Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs last year, launches a campaign against the factory farming of animals.

Jared Lynch is based in Melbourne, covering food, factories and farms, as well as other company news.

Traditional organic farmers see hydroponic production as a new form of «factory farming» that further corporatizes organic agriculture.

Further, as per the scope of this report, the science and technology areas discussed focus on unlocking value - adding activities or markets, rather than improving productivity on - farm / factory or over the value chain.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

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Ian oversees the production on farms as well as in the factory at Brisbane.

These include Waverley Station which is owned by the Crouch family and is the biggest beef cattle farmer on the island and corporates such as Nippon Meats and Kirin Holdings - owned Lion Dairy & Drinks which owns and operates dairy farms and a cheese factory on the island.

But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is fighting this claim in court, alleging that it is misleading or deceptive advertising as the birds in factory farms are confined at such high densities inside sheds that they can not roam around freely.

environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

But as APL alluded, the customer is always right — and now the customer knows exactly what goes on in factory farms, they have the knowledge to vote for change through the choices they make every day.

Leading chefs are speaking out against factory farming as have some of Australia's most respected identities who all know that the key to change for these animals is an informed and empowered consumer.

But behind the scenes, getting food from farm to factory to grocery store fridge — a process known as supply chain management — can be complicated and messy.

GFI's Managing Director for Israel will serve as an independent contractor orchestrating the regional expansion of our efforts to replace factory - farmed products with plant - based and clean meat.

The mothers used for breeding (sows) are trapped in a cycle of suffering to give birth to as many piglets as possible until her body can no longer physically cope and she is sent to slaughter too - in factory farms this is usually between 2 and 3 years of age.

As the first bean - to - bar maker of Organic, Fair Trade, Fair for Life, and Non-GMO certified chocolate in North America, Theo is creating delicious products while working to improve livelihoods and protect the environment in farm and factory communities alike.

Last week on Oprah, Lisa Ling gave us a glimpse into some of America's farms — factory farms as well as organic farms — to see just how some of the animals we eat live before they become dinner on our table.

But imagine the marketing potential: Organic grass - fed human breast - milk cheese could be the ultimate Whole Foods product, as long as the women aren't housed on factory farms or given artificial hormones to increase milk production and everything is certified.

With a veracious, transparent farm to factory concept, Nova Scotia Organics started as a small, kitchen project that has grown into a 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility found on Nova Scotia Organics» three hundred - acre farm.

Actually the bigger dilemma for me is the fact that I buy nasty, factory farmed, bleached white eggs to make the dye job easier but we consider the paint / dye as well.

As a small local farm, Drumlin Farm models an alternative to the often inhumane treatment of factory raised animfarm, Drumlin Farm models an alternative to the often inhumane treatment of factory raised animFarm models an alternative to the often inhumane treatment of factory raised animals.

Animals born in factories shipped out to huge farms which are overcrowded, deprived of sunlight and in their own filth and fed extra hormones to make them grow larger and more quickly, chicken given extra laying mash to make them lay more eggs per day and a primary diet of corn which is a filler when these animals should all be living on grass as a primary chickens with a mix of bugs for protein.

Factories often offer tours, as do many farms and businesses — even private groups such as model train clubs.

Simon Kuznets, the Nobel prize - winning economist more famous for his work on measuring gross domestic product, theorised that most economies would follow what became known as the Kuznets curve: a roughly bell curve - shaped pattern that reflected inequality rising as people left farms to work in factories, then falling as they demanded governments redistribute the benefits of industrialisation.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indifarming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indiFarming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

Reacting against this and other «science over nature» trends, the pioneers of the environmental movement in the late 1960s were quick to pick up on the negative aspects of factory farming, with books such as «Silent Spring» and «Animal Machines» generating considerable interest.

Policy - which has stemmed as with most agricultural matters from the EU - has historically balanced the objections against the economic case for intensive farming, but in recent years has been moving against factory farming.

The technique, dubbed «aquaponics,» integrates fish farming and hydroponic agriculture in a sort of closed, symbiotic loop — the fish serve as fertilizer factories, the plants as water purifiers.