Sentences with phrase «discussion about agriculture»

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It strikes me that there's also room for discussion about whether the President need be involved in everything with which he has chosen to distract himself, from the contretemps about Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod to Henry Louis Gates's altercation with the Cambridge police.

Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) next week, Meat Free Monday has released a short film about a huge contributor to climate change that is often left out of conference discussions — animal agriculture.

In our own social studies methods classes, we use a wide variety of technology tools to prompt students, from data visualization (e.g., using Fathom or GIS to generate hypotheses about demographics, agriculture, and urban planning) to user - generated content (YouTube clips to initiate discussions of culture and globalization).

Following the current legislative issues affecting the veterinary profession, we were lucky enough to attend the House Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Markup, attend a hearing on the 2019 Budget of the US Department of Agriculture involving the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and attend a discussion at the Newseum hosted by the Retail Industry Leaders Association about the current Supreme Court Case involving online sales tax collection (the majority of veterinary clinics are small businesses largely affected by this issue).

One of the most inspiring recent developments in the discussion about farming has been the shift from talking about «sustainable» agriculture to advocating for «regenerative» agriculture.

IRIN: Discussions about much - needed support for agriculture — which is seen both as a victim and a cause of climate change — at the UN's climate change conference in Doha have been postponed until next year.

In this piece, I assume the reader is vegan or already understands that any discussion about waste reduction or environment must acknowledge that animal agriculture and its concomitant waste has a devastating effect upon humans and the environment.

The study, she says, «Opens up a really smart discussion about the role organic agriculture can play worldwide.»

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