Sentences with phrase «concerns about farm»

Experts have raised concerns about farm raised fish, which in some cases are raised on unnatural diets and crammed into small enclosures that can breed disease, prompting aquaculture operators to rely heavily on antibiotics.

But are there other concerns about farm - raised that make some fish a poor choice for good health?

Internet information is all well and good, but if you have concerns about farming then you really should go and talk to a farmer.

In Emilia Romagna though, they have been concerned about farm to table and quality food for decades and even generations.

Not exact matches

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.

Consumer interest in local, organic agriculture boomed, and concerns about factory farming galvanized writers like Michael Pollan, Wayne Roberts and Raj Patel.

For example, it took weeks after concerns rose about «content farms» for Google to develop its Panda Update filter to filter out low - quality content from its results.

Today's commonplaces of animal rights discourse — concern about the factory farms, the unnecessary lab experiments on monkeys, the cosmetics tested on rabbits — are familiar because of Singer and the tremendous influence of his book.

ASWA has also expressed concerns about misconceptions over the pain experienced by lobsters being boiled alive and the welfare of farmed salmon.

Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, including concerns about the effects of conventional farming practices on the environment, human health, and animal welfare.

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental impacts of large - scale industrial farming on the region.

love the recipe, and concept, but am concerned about the current high intensity and in ethical farming and manufacturing procedures of quinoa — now that it is so population.

You have already contacted a certification body with your concerns about a particular certified farm's or farm group's compliance with any aspect of the standard and certification requirements, and you feel that your concerns were not satisfactorily addressed

One Tulare - area dairy producer told Western Farm Press that he was concerned about depooling.

The retreat doesn't buy farmed fish because of the pellets fish are fed but it's also concerned about overfishing.

«The Humane Society of the United States applauds Wendy's for responding to customers» concerns about animal welfare and taking this positive step,» stated Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.

A millionaire dairy farming couple is trying to prove their son is mentally unwell after he left their church and raised concerns about the family business.

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Many also are concerned about the treatment of farm animals and are interested in replacing meat, dairy, and eggs with plant proteins.

However, there are longstanding concerns about small farm businesses being subject to anticompetitive behaviour from dominant market players in the supply chain...» (p 28)

The response from major retailers has been encouraging, with Coles and Woolworths responding to public concern about the treatment of animals raised for food by committing to stock fewer factory farmed products.

For many reasons, such as there being over 10 million hens kept in conventional cages, false and misleading claims about egg - labelling and many others, AFSA is concerned for the future of genuine free - range systems for raising poultry on farms.

So while moms can be (and should be) concerned about the contaminants in their breast milk... it is certainly easier to change something you have more control over (your own diet and personal products) than what factory farm lots are doing to their cows.

(I use organic free - range eggs from a nearby small farm, so I tend to not worry much about them, but this concerns me.)

Buying organic is still the best bet for people concerned about avoiding chemical pesticides, protecting the environment and farm workers, animal rights and taste.

Pamela Atwater, president of Save Ontario Shores, Inc., recently sent a letter to Cuomo reiterating SOS's concern about an industrial - scale wind farm possibly threatening the future of Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

He expressed concerns that more tank farms are in the process of being approved, revealing that Lagos alone accounts for 80 percent of the cargo that comes into the country through the ports while about 90 percent of the fuel used across Nigeria is loaded in Lagos.

Sean Lennon says he and his mother first became concerned about the gas drilling practice when the Constitution Pipeline was planned to border their farm in the Catskills, purchased by John Lennon and Yoko Ono decades ago.

The New York Farm Bureau is concerned about what impact January's minimum wage increase and proposed new hikes would have on the state's agricultural sector.

[Cameron] thinks that people who talk about Europe or «bang on» about Europe as he once put it himself, he thinks that people who talk about immigration and who are worried about the numbers of people coming to Britain, he thinks that people who are concerned about the blot of wind farms all over our landscapes and seascapes, he thinks that people who discuss those things are beyond the pale and I think when he insults us actually what he's doing, he's insulting a very large number of his own voters.

A combination of record floods and record numbers of organic farms has led to concerns about the safety of groceries — organic and otherwise

«Remnants of antibiotics persist in treated farm waste: Study raises new concerns about how agriculture may be contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance worldwide.»

Activists are also concerned, of course, about the conditions animals endure on fur farms.

Robert Friedland at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, who is concerned about the possibility of people contracting Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease from eating farmed fish that are fed by - products rendered from cows (Reuters, 26 June)

The nominee also drew criticism from some farm - state Republicans, who raised concerns about her ability to offer evidence - based policy advice.

Marin County, in the San Francisco Bay Area, is particularly concerned about its organic farms, which make up nearly 75 percent of its dairy farms.

In 2011, regulators reopened the «muladares,» or farm carcass dumps, that had been shut down in the wake of concern about the spread of «mad cow disease» (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

While there is concern about the use of chemicals, overcrowding, and disease with farmed fish, farming in closed tanks can be healthy and eco-friendly.

If you're concerned about finding meat from an animal that was raised humanely and not treated with antibiotics or hormones, look for a certified organic label — or educate yourself about companies» farming practices and choose a brand you trust.

While farmed fish have obvious drawbacks there are also sustainability concerns about wild caught fish.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Scientists in the US are far more concerned about two studies: both of which showed farmed salmon accumulate more cancer - causing PCB's and poisonous dioxins than wild salmon.

Factory - farmed meat also has a higher ratio of Omega - 6 to Omega - 3 fats, so if you're concerned about inflammation, eating a lot of fatty conventional pork or chicken isn't the best idea.

I'd be more concerned about melamine than pus, but dairy hygiene on Chinese farms may not have been all that in the past.

If you are one of the Kiwi singles who just can't make up their mind about having kids, then you can find equally confused company in Stratford in Taranaki, a farming town that earns the title of most indecisive place in the country (at least where children are concerned).

Rack Hansen is summoned to a farm in rural Arizona by a farmer who is concerned about a sick calf.

Ted's purchase meets with disapproval from his wife Rose (Emily Watson), who has legitimate concerns about their precarious financial situation; she fears the loss of their farm.

Reversing trends There is now growing concern about the poor understanding of young children about food, farming and sustainability issues.