Sentences with phrase «breed of pigs»

These animals are not too many in number as micro breed of pigs is scarce, but the latest trends of people have made breeders create some of the finest varieties of these animals.

This is an adventure tour in an off - road vehicle through the vineyards, with a visit to the farm where we rear the famous local breed of pig that has very ancient origins indeed.

The May issue of Bon Appétit has a great, extensive feature on heritage pork — smaller, varied breeds of pig that get ignored by large - scale commercial pork producers.

As the source of their nucleus, the Japanese team took connective tissue cells from 24 - day - old fetuses of a black breed of pig.

However, some breeds of the pig stay as small as Rosie.

Jenna, she is a breed of pig who has been genetically modified to be obese - there is really nothing anyone can do about that: - / those type of pigs are not expected to live longer than 1,5 year.

People are fond of keeping lizards and breeds of pigs too as their pets.

But what about teacup breeds of pigs, often called toy pigs, miniature teacup pigs, mini teacup pigs, micro mini piglets or nano pigs?

Not exact matches

In keeping fowls, pigs, dogs, and swine, let not their times of breeding be neglected, and persons of seventy years may eat flesh.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds the announcement from ConAgra Foods that it will eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.

The list of heritage dishes featured include wood roasted duck, assorted cuts of dry - aged beef and Tartare Bar from Creekstone Farms, spit roasted local rabbit, roasted goat, raw oysters and roasted clams, octopus with chorizo, sturgeon, and many variations of heritage breed pig with artisan cheeses and heirloom vegetables which are all paired with the best beverages.

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.

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the continual gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs, while many family farmers have been raising pigs without the use of gestation crates for generations.

Shareholders of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ: CBRL) voted to support the restaurant outlet's recently - adopted policy to eliminate gestation crates — small cages used to virtually immobilize breeding pigs for months on end — from its pork supply chain.

(Dec. 15, 2010)-- The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.

Burger King, Wendy's, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Chipotle, Quizno's, Sonic, Wolfgang Puck, Safeway and Whole Foods have reduced or eliminated their use of pork from pigs bred using gestation crates.

According to its new policy, Burger King Corp. will transition to 100 percent cage - free eggs for all U.S. locations within five years, and only purchase pork from suppliers that have documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding pigs.

Currently, the SUBWAY ® brand uses a significant amount of pork from suppliers that are phasing out the use of gestation crates to confine breeding pigs, and more than 5 percent of its turkey comes from suppliers that use «controlled - atmosphere killing,» which has been shown to dramatically reduce the suffering of birds during slaughter.

Sonic's new policy will result in the company phasing - in the use of cage - free eggs as well as pork from facilities that do not confine breeding pigs in gestation crates.

Harris Teeter has committed to sell nearly four times the amount of cage - free eggs as the grocery industry's national average, phase - in pork from suppliers that don't use gestation crates to confine breeding pigs and dramatically increase the amount of poultry it sells from producers that use a less - inhumane slaughter system called «controlled - atmosphere killing.»

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Bruegger's Bagels for its work to eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.

This industry titan's decision to eliminate the perpetual confinement of breeding pigs inside small cages from their supply chain reinforces the food industry's view of gestation crates as unsustainable and inhumane.»

The Humane Society of the United States applauds the announcement from Hillshire Brands, owner of Hillshire Farms, Ballpark, Jimmy Dean and State Fair meat brands that it will eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.

In addition to the individual acts of abuse which led to criminal charges, The HSUS» investigation also found breeding pigs confined day - and - night in gestation crates, tiny cages that virtually immobilize animals for nearly their entire lives.

Created in 2008 in response to the lack of education around heritage breed pigs, Cochon555 is a nose - to - tail culinary event dedicated to supporting family farmers and educating buyers about the agricultural importance of eating heritage breed pigs, some of which are on critical watch lists.

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.

The graphic video also documents prolonged suffering of pigs used for breeding who are confined in gestation crates, two - foot - wide metal cages so small the animals can't even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for almost their entire lives.

The HSUS is urging Tyson Foods to join its competitors in the pork industry and commit to phasing out the extreme confinement of breeding pigs in gestation crates.

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs.

The Humane Society of the United States has filed supplemental complaints with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission regarding false and misleading statements being made by Seaboard Foods — the nation's third - largest pork producer and a supplier to Walmart — in response to a recent undercover investigation video of one of the company's Oklahoma pig breeding facilities.

The graphic videos document prolonged suffering of pigs used for breeding who are confined in cages so small the animals can't even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for their entire lives.

(Jan. 31, 2012) The Humane Society of the United States released undercover videos taken at Oklahoma pig breeding facilities owned by two leading U.S. pork producers and filed legal complaints with the U.S. Securities and Exchange and Federal Trade Commission alleging false and misleading statements about animal care by one of the producers.

Pigs All of the fresh British pork we sell — along with Waitrose sausages, bacon, British ham and gammon — comes from pigs that are either outdoor bred or outdoor reared.

It's cheaper and more sustainable than beef, but more crucially, well - raised heritage - breed pigs yield meat that has tons of incredibly nuanced flavor and plenty of luscious fat just waiting to be crisped up in a cast - iron pan — a far cry from the bland, lean factory - raised stuff.

Hilton Worldwide announced today that it will begin to eliminate the use of cages for egg - laying chickens and gestation crates for breeding pigs in its global food supply chain.

6 Sow Stalls Currently it is legal to confine a mother pig (a breeding sow) for the majority of her life in a tiny individual metal crate required only to be 1 cm longer and 1 cm wider than her body.

«Our humanely raised, antibiotic - free animals enjoy life here, and we want our guests to visit and learn more about the origin of their food before they take it home,» says Carlson who raises some of the finest heritage breeds of animals including Devon cattle and purebred Ossabaw pigs.

The country's ninth - largest grocer, Delhaize America, announced that it will require its pork suppliers to produce reports regarding their progress in eliminating from their pork supply chains the use of gestation crates — cages used to house breeding pigs that are so restrictive, the animals can't even turn around.

Compared to the organic parties of the 1st and 2nd republics, his post old breed - new breed guinea - pigging has left the formal party system a hollow shell, devoid of any ideological direction, talk less of rigour.

And fatter pig breeds — though tasty — tend to grow more slowly and consume more feed than leaner ones to produce the same amount of meat.

Random - bred Hartley strain guinea pigs which do not respond immunologically to conjugates of hapten and poly - L - lysine mere mated with heterozygous guinea pigs which do.

IN THE race to the top of the breeding tree, meerkats pig out to boost their own growth in response to a rival gaining weight.

One day, making a pig of yourself could have a whole new meaning with the advent of animals bred to provide us with replacement organs if we need them.

If you see only the results of your own breeding program — never any fat, happy pigs with good conformation — it's easy to lose sight of how much their behavior has changed, especially if you're focusing exclusively on developing physical traits.

Recent research on the domestication of donkeys, camelids (which includes dromedaries, Bactrian camels, llamas and alpacas) pigs, cattle, sheep and goats suggests that neither intentional breeding nor genetic isolation were as significant as traditionally thought, the scientists said.

This culminated in a notorious case in 2004 in which extremists exhumed and stole the remains of a woman whose son - in - law ran a guinea pig breeding business.

Eager to get the record straight, Laurent Frantz, now a bioinformaticist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, carried out sophisticated computer analyses of 103 whole genomes sequenced from wild boars and domesticated pig breeds from all over Europe and Asia.

The study indicates that the pig was a domestic pig, given that the sequence presents a series of markers typical of domestic pigs and which are very rare or absent in wild boars (the precursor animals to the domestic pig); moreover, this coincides with the historical registers of the castle, which clearly indicates that pig breeding was an important castle activity.

The sample dates approximately from the years 1520 to 1550 and is previous to the introduction of Asian pigs in Europe, which were later crossed with local European breeds which are the origin of today's international pig species.