Sentences with phrase «crops for human consumption»

Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption in the world.

In the decade since genetically modified crops for human consumption became the norm, flawlessly smooth, plump red tomatoes and blemish - free bananas fill the aisles of the supermarkets where we send our butler robots to shop.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

Producing and eating less meat can free up these crops for human consumption.

Not exact matches

Seventy - five percent of all crops grown for human consumption rely on pollinators, predominantly bees, for a successful harvest.

«We could feed 4 billion more people with existing cropland if we just used the crops for first - hand human consumption, rather than making animal feed or biofuels from it,» she told MFM.

For crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barrieFor crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriefor human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriers.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

The crops were harvested on 16 May, and contained low levels of radiation — around 9 becquerels per kilogram (Bq kg - 1; wet weight), much lower than the 500 Bq kg - 1 safety limit for human consumption.

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

This is a big problem because more than 70 percent of agricultural land is currently being used for livestock production, leaving little room for crops destined for human consumption.

The crops were analysed for heavy metals and also alkaloids to check their safety for human consumption.

While the manufacturer of Quorn ™ cultivates strains of Fusarium venenatum via fermentation into a mycoprotein dough for human consumption, farmers try to fight off Fusarium graminearum as this pervasive fungal pathogen invades multiple crops and threatens global food security.

Enzymes are produced by plants and microbes in order to increase the uptake of elements as well as assist in the synthesis, within the crop, of raw materials that are necessary to produce completely nutrient - dense foods suitable for consumption by livestock and humans.

By turning the land to the production of food crops for direct human consumption the argument goes, we would cut our intake of animal fat and cholesterol and at the same time increase the total food supply by eliminating the inefficiency inherent in animal production.

This chemical is actually banned in the European Union — it is illegal for UK farmers to spray any crop intended for human consumption with chlorpyrifos as of 2016 — but the US Environmental Protection Agency has refused to ban it.

Not to mention all the toxic pesticides they are allowed to use because it's not a crop grown for human consumption.