Sentences with phrase «by animal industries»

c. any other method approved by the Animal Industries Services Division of the State Department of Agriculture which shall include current acceptable euthanasia recommendations from the American Veterinary Medical Association, with the exception of curariform derivative drugs.

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Animal advocates have been working for decades to weaken the animal agriculture industry by encouraging individuals and institutions to reduce the demand for animal products and implement humane reAnimal advocates have been working for decades to weaken the animal agriculture industry by encouraging individuals and institutions to reduce the demand for animal products and implement humane reanimal agriculture industry by encouraging individuals and institutions to reduce the demand for animal products and implement humane reanimal products and implement humane reforms.
GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.
... This conference launches the corridor even further as being the epicenter of the animal health industry by driving innovation into the industry
Many of the general challenges of the livestock industry in meeting consumer demands are shared by the crop industry, with the exception of animal welfare.
The article by Schulz and Tonsor reviews the structural evolution of the industry, the underlying legal framework in animal welfare, and adjustments in impacted markets.
The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Iindustry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health IndustryIndustry.
Maple Lodge Farms also strictly adheres to the Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Poultry, a series of strict industry guidelines developed by farm groups, animal welfare groups, veterinarians, animal scientists, federal and provincial governments, related agricultural sectors and others.
With more than 50 years of experience in the industry, Parques Reunidos operates a well - diversified portfolio of 62 different attraction parks, animal parks, water parks, family entertainment centers and other attractions that are visited by roughly 20 million people on an annual basis.
«Immersive and creative videos such as the Paddock to Plate Story help educate and engage consumers by addressing their growing interest in sustainability, meat quality, traceability and animal welfare practices within our industry,» Ms Sharp said.
New laws making it illegal to take pictures or film agricultural animals came into force in the US states of Utah and Iowa, lobbied for by an industry attempting to keep secret what happens on factory farms.
The Plant Based Food Association's mission is to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace for businesses selling plant - based foods intended to replace animal products such as meats, dairy, and eggs, by promoting policies and practices that improve conditions in the plant - based foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based foods.
«For more than a decade, Burger King Corp. has demonstrated a commitment to animal welfare and, through our BK Positive Steps ® corporate responsibility program, we continue to leverage our purchasing power to ensure the appropriate and proper treatment of animals by our vendors and suppliers,» said Jonathan Fitzpatrick, chief brand and operations officer of Burger King Corp. «We are proud to announce these new, industry - leading commitments that support meaningful standards of humane treatment in our U.S. supply chain.»
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 company should be applauded for taking animal welfare seriously by purchasing cage - free eggs, and we hope others in the food industry follow its lead.»
Such «solutions» would only compound the industry's horrific treatment of workers and animals and exacerbate the environmental and health crises caused by the industry.
Despite heavy lobbying from Australia's intensive pork industry, Minister Green has accepted this recommendation, encouraged by a flood of supportive letters and e-mails from thousands of caring Animals Australia supporters.
Recently the Tasmanian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recognised the unacceptable cruelty permitted by the flawed national code, and recommended to the Primary Industries Minister, Bryan Green, that Tasmania take a leading role to become the first state to outlaw the cruel practice of confining sows in stalls.
Compiled by two of the most esteemed researchers in the food science industry, Leo M.L. Nollet and Fidel Toldrá, Sensory Analysis of Foods of Animal Origin identifies and quantifies the quality attributes to help those in the industry understand the importance of perceived sensory quality.
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.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) is appalled by the treatment of Australian animals in the Middle East and equally appalled that the Australian live export industry is trying to convince the Australian public that the region requires live animals, when in fact they can be slaughtered in compliance with Islamic laws in Australia.
We are proud to be founding members of the Plant Based Foods Association, a trade organization formed with the following mission: to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace for businesses selling plant - based foods intended to replace animal products such as meats, dairy, and eggs, by promoting policies and practices that improve conditions in the plant - based foods industry, and educating consumers about the benefits of plant - based foods.
The integrity of the process undertaken by the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) was put into question after research by animal welfare scientists was distorted by the drafting group to appear in favour of conventional caged egg production.
Closer to home we have only just witnessed how widespread calls to end the live export of animals to be slaughtered overseas are easily ignored by the Australian Government when the financial implications to the industry become evident.
Its conclusion was that livestock are at the heart of almost every environmental catastrophe — so it came as a shock to the meat and dairy industries, particularly as it was authored by people who support animal farming.
The Good Food Institute (GFI) is working to transform the animal agriculture industry by promoting the development of competitive alternatives to animal - based meat, dairy, and eggs.
Animals are transported live because their bodies are seen by the global industry as an efficient way to transport «fresh meat».
By pushing animals into more countries, the live export industry aims to encourage people to eat more meat.
The live export industry is considering a major retreat on animal welfare policy, by canvassing an idea put forward by Labor for an independent inspector to oversee the treatment of livestock.
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The religious dimension of this matter has also been mischievously overcooked by the live animal export industry, because the fact is that the overwhelming number of relatively affluent Muslims who tend to consume Australian meat would have no objection to buying that meat so long as it's been processed in an Australian Halal certified abattoir.
This specification has been used by major pet manufactures since then and has been recognized as the standard in the animal food industry.
A two - year investigation — conducted by the Wildlife Protection Association of Australia (WPAA) and Animal Liberation NSW, and based on information provided by a kangaroo industry «whistleblower» — found evidence of unsustainable and damning practices in the kangaroo industry.
The live export industry performs a major retreat on animal welfare policy by endorsing a Labor proposal for an independent inspector to oversee the trade.
«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.»
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).
Perhaps even more tellingly, figures provided by the circus industry and published by Defra last year showed that visitor numbers to circuses using wild animals had more than halved in just five years.
A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
All too often, moves to take a lead and improve animal welfare standards at home are stopped in their tracks by the threat that all we will do is export our industry to third world countries which have lower welfare standards.
Dawn Howard concludes: «The UK animal medicines sector looks forward to its role in implementing the Report's recommendations by being part of the collaboration between UK government and industry, to develop practical proposals so that antibiotics remain effective to protect the health of people and animals into the future.»
In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.
The analysis by Kearns and her colleagues of the industry's own documents, in contrast, suggests that the industry knew of animal research suggesting this link and halted funding to protect its commercial interests half a century ago.
IFTF argues that fur farming has environmental benefits, such as providing good use for 647,000 tons of animal by - products each year from Europe's fish and meat industries alone (they are fed to the captive animals), and generating a lot of manure, sold as organic fertilizer.
Grandin's battles in the slaughter industry have nearly all been waged with higher management, not with workers or floor managers, simply because they're office bound, their thinking determined more by the paper that surrounds them than by living animals and working plants.
«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.
If one applies the ratio of BPA intake to excreted values in hosts of published animal studies, concentrations just reported by CDC suggest that the daily intake of most Americans is actually closer to 100 micrograms (µg) per kilogram bodyweight, he says — or some 1,000-fold higher than the industry figure.
While some acidification is caused by factory and vehicle emissions, the major fault lies with high ammonia levels in animal waste generated by the country's cattle industry.
«The dairy industry is committed to the economic sustainability of our farmers by selecting a new generation of healthy, long - lived, high production cows,» commented Journal of Dairy Science ® Editor - in - Chief Matthew C. Lucy, PhD, Professor of Animal Science at the University of Missouri.
Dr. Robert Urban of Johnson & Johnson will address how Organ - Chips are being used by the pharmaceutical industry today and the potential the technology holds to change the drug development process and reduce the use of animals in research.
All animal experimentation in Israel, whether in universities, research institutes, hospitals and industry is regulated and supervised by the CSO - MOH according to the 1994 Animal Experimentatioanimal experimentation in Israel, whether in universities, research institutes, hospitals and industry is regulated and supervised by the CSO - MOH according to the 1994 Animal ExperimentatioAnimal Experimentation Act.
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