Sentences with phrase «by ruminant animals»

The basis of this system was grass, consumed by ruminant animals who turned it into milk.

Not exact matches

We've taken an animal that is a ruminant or grazer and acidified its intestinal system by forcing it to eat corn.

The introduction of rapeseed - based animal feed into the diet of ruminants improves efficiency in the use of digestible organic matter by between 4.4 % and 10.1 % and cuts the fermentation of the diet by between 6.2 % and 11.8 %, without adversely affecting its digestibility for this reason.

Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.

The impact of ruminants goes beyond manure; by improving soil quality and aeration, these animals regenerate and heal landscapes.

They are primarily produced by bacteria in animals with ruminant stomachs, like cows, goats, and sheep.

While grass - fed meat from ruminant animals is certainly a healthy «Paleo food,» it by no means constitutes the majority of a typical Paleo diet.

Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health Mechanism of retained placenta and its treatment by plant medicine in ruminant animals in Oromia, Ethiopia

A lot of people simply do not realize most animal species evolved to get most of their caloric energy needs from fat, even ruminants actually receive their nutrition and calories from the fatty acids generated by the bacteria in their rumen consuming the plant matter.

By itself, liver from land animals, especially ruminants like cattle and lamb, is very rich in vitamin A, 64 while livers from both ruminants and poultry animals have only about 12 IU of vitamin D for every 100 grams.65

That would be important because some experiments carried out on rats and mice are completely irrelevant to humans because of the significant physiological differences as the article above refers to: «Ruminant animals such as cows, sheep and goats have no trouble with phytic acid because phytase is produced by rumen microorganisms; monogastric animals also produce phytase, although far less.

However, keep in mind that the quantity of healthy trans fats in the meat and dairy of ruminant animals is greatly reduced by mass - production methods of farming and their grain and soy heavy diets.

Food Safety Neogen's Food Safety Division consists primarily of diagnostic test kits and complementary products (e.g., dehydrated culture media) sold to food producers and processors to detect dangerous and / or unintended substances in human food and animal feed, such as foodborne pathogens, spoilage organisms, natural toxins, food allergens, genetic modifications, ruminant by - products, meat speciation, drug residues, pesticide residues and general sanitation concerns.

Charlottetown, PEI - The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

The Council states that eating less meat from ruminant animals (such as cattle and lamb) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food in Denmark by 20 to 35 percent.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

... As for possible routes of introduction of the virus, they mention BTV - positive ruminants imported either legally or illegally, virus - carrying midges transported by wind over hundreds of kilometers, accidental importation by ship or aircraft, contaminated vaccines and trade with the products of infected animals... Kampen and Werner conclude that «it is due to continuing globalization rather than to climate change that even central and northern Europe are at risk of new pathogens as well as vectors of disease entering and establishing.»»

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

Ruminants digest through microbial, or «enteric» fermentation, which produces methane that is released by the animals through belching and, to a lesser degree, via flatulence.

Both products work by killing or stifling the «bad» bacteria that compete with cows for food by lingering in their guts — as well as those of other four - stomached animals like sheep and goats (all called ruminants).