Sentences with phrase «confinement systems»

In the 60 years since, corn prices fell steadily as output rose, and meat production shifted from diversified, pastured - based systems almost exclusively to corn - intensive, factory - style confinement systems.

The Soil Association's organic standards exceed standard industry practice and include prohibiting confinement systems, ensuring bedding and / or environmental enrichment, ensuring free - range access with shade and shelter, specifying stunning and slaughter practices and monitoring welfare through outcome measures.

Advice line council can shed insight into housetraining via confinement systems and regular elimination schedules, developing human - dog trusting relationships, interacting with other dogs, training through positive reinforcement, and behavioral modification through which we figure out ways to gently prevent the unwanted behavior from happening and reward the one you want with a generosity that would make a billionaire blush.

There's been so much tangible progress for animals in recent years — national euthanasia numbers continuing to decline, felony - level penalties for malicious cruelty enacted in every state, and major food retailers pledging to phase out purchasing animal products from farms that use extreme confinement systems.

The vast majority of meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.

It may reflect, according to the authors, a greater tendency for purebred dogs to stray, a propensity for underground confinement systems among purebred dog owners, an ease in capturing purebred dogs, or a willingness of people to catch or report stray purebreds more than mixed breed purebreds.

In their panic, such dogs may jump through plate glass windows, scale fences that are otherwise normally adequate to safely contain them, and find other ways to break free from their usual confinement systems.

Waitrose was a pioneer of and is committed to the removal of close confinement systems from farm production.

None of our own - label British meat or ingredient meat or eggs are sourced from close confinement systems.

Close confinement systems, including farrowing crates and caged hens, are not used and stocking densities are lower than average across the supply chain.

The vast majority of meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.

«Smithfield's original timetable for its phase - out of gestation crates was already very lengthy, given the prolonged suffering that the animals endure in these extreme confinement systems,» said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

This confinement system has come under fire from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, animal scientists, consumers, and more.

«Group housing... resulted in a weaned pig cost that was 11 percent less than the cost of a weaned pig from the individual stall confinement system.»

This confinement system has come under fire from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, animal scientists, consumers and others.

An alternate confinement system, the field - reversed configuration, confines beams of protons and boron - 11.

The UCSD scientists» confinement system was «problematic,» he said.

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«You really want work with your pet in a positive way to get the accustomed to the confinement system that's required.

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Improvements in the systems of restraint have been made to minimize pressure on the body and to accommodate normal body positions, but confinement is still required.

I take Barr to be suggesting that these facts are not unrelated and that confinement in the straitjacket of that intellectual system is a major reason that «modernized and up - dated evangelicalism has [not] attained to any conceptual framework that is intrinsically different from the fundamentalist one, or that it has even tried.»

The scientists involved hope to obtain magnetic confinement for 30 minutes (compared with up to 30 seconds for tokamaks) in the next few years, making it a relatively steady - state system.

The Retail Council of Canada announced that all eight of the largest Canadian supermarket chains — Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro, Loblaw, Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobeys and Co-op Atlantic — will move away from gestation crate confinement of pigs in their supply systems over the next nine years.

The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is examining New York's controversial system of civil confinement for sex offenders, which allows convicted sex offenders to be kept in secure psychiatric hospitals indefinitely after their prison terms.

The Board of Correction today approved a plan for an enhanced supervision unit touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte — but also voted to end solitary confinement for all inmates on Rikers Island under 21 by 2016, a sweeping change that will set the department apart from jail systems nationwide.

The report found rampant use of excessive force by correction officers, the overuse of solitary confinement and an ineffectual system of investigating assaults by guards.

«At the same time, the Mayor is expanding alternatives to incarceration, simplifying the bail and summons systems, and reducing solitary confinement while working to close Rikers Island.

«The jails and prisons that brutalize our children with cruelty and solitary confinement makes you question whether we have a criminal justice system at all.

The Correction Department has ended the use of solitary confinement for all inmates under 22 years old and allocated funds to expand public health services throughout the criminal justice system, with the aim of diverting more people with mental health and substance abuse problems from Rikers.

It is finally time for New York to end the torture of solitary confinement, and undertake a fundamental transformation of the state's criminal justice system as a whole, and we once again applaud the Speaker's and the Assembly's leadership toward those ends.

The list also includes reform to the bail system, ending the use of solitary confinement, and a bill to accelerate trials.

To truly address the issue of solitary confinement, Governor Cuomo should create a timeline for discontinuing the use of all solitary confinement and punitive segregation throughout the state prison system.

Twelve scientific divisions are investigating confinement of high - temperature hydrogen plasmas in magnetic fields, heating of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, magnetic field technology, data acquisition and processing, plasma theory, materials research, plasma - wall interaction, and systems studies.

«The new system provides a property known as «confinement» which has been known since the 1970s, but proven difficult to achieve in practical systems like web browsers.

This controllable reflectivity and interference is similar, he adds, to so - called «whispering gallery» confinement modes that have been used in optical and acoustic systems — but these have not been tunable or adjustable.

«A lot of the work that is done to understand these types of liquid crystal systems,» Collings said, «is to put two competing influences on them, such as the molecules» natural tendency to line up perfectly versus some confinement or external field that says, «We're not going to let you do that.»»

They previously collaborated in designing an X-ray crystal spectrometer, and evaluated one of the precision spherically bent crystals to be used in the spectrometer, for the OMEGA - EP laser system at the University of Rochester, which supports inertial confinement research.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.

Once a dairy farm transitions from a confinement model to a pasture - based feeding system, a smaller further step (Heckman, 2015) is to convert the farm to organic following the required 3 - yr period for transition.

Additionally, the stress experienced during confinement commonly alters normal patterns of eating, sleeping, urinating, and defecating, thereby negatively affecting the canine immune system and making our canine companions more susceptible to infection.

Additionally, the stress experienced during activity, travel, or confinement commonly alters normal patterns of eating, eliminating, and sleeping, thereby negatively impacting the immune system and making our canine companions more susceptible to infection.»

Success is dependent on creating a combination of supervision and confinement (using your management system), a structured feeding and watering routine, and establishing a solid schedule of events for your dog to successfully eliminate.

Unfortunately, not all in well within the system of bunkers keeping everyone alive: a new disease, called Confinement Syndrome, is slowly infecting the populace, turning those infected into lethargic, apathetic zombies.

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I was restless with this idea of the confinement of the architecture of the current cultural system.

Desperate Housewives features work of artists who attach the patriarchal system and the role of the domestic space, which they see as an emblem of confinement and submission to male power.

Blue Room takes its title from two types of space which employ ambient lighting as a system of control: a dimly lit command center used to monitor airspace during the Cold War, and a calm room used to pacify prisoners in solitary confinement.

«Elkins» photographs are not an overt indictment of the American criminal justice system, but they do ask us to question our own stances on the use of capital punishment and solitary confinement.

Threaded throughout Bovo's practice is her interest in the human act of carving out a space for community within inhospitable urban landscapes, and more broadly, within the confinement of law, the logics of nations, and the systems of globalism.

Horwitz claimed artistic freedom through confinement to a few simple rules: she came to base all her work on the numbers one to eight — often deploying a colour code for each number — and used this system to depict time and movement.