Sentences with phrase «domesticated animals for food»

Compare and contrast the behaviors of hunters and gatherers with those of people who cultivated plants and raised domesticated animals for food, in order to demonstrate the influence of the Neolithic revolution on the daily lives of people.

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Livestock are domesticated animals intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food or fibre, or for their labour.

Anthropologists have long believed that there was a protracted lag between when humans started domesticating cattle for food — about 9,000 years ago — and when they managed to harness the animals to plows and collect their milk.

The Maya cultivated many plants for food, but it has long been believed that they only kept one domesticated animal — dogs — for food during the early flourishing of their civilization.

Our ancestors also began domesticating and breeding animals for food, but the result was more fat in our diet: Wild game has only 4 percent of fat, whereas supermarket beef has about 36 percent [source: Bjerklie, Lemonick].

Of course there can be many other reasons for this difference such as the level of stress domesticated animals experience and the lower quality of food they consume compared to wild animals.

All supplements meant for domesticated animals are considered by the FDA as «feed supplements» and classified as either «foods» or «new animal drugs,» depending on their intended use.

Pet food is a specialty food for domesticated animals that is formulated according to their nutritional needs.

Guinea pigs are an important food for indigenous people throughout the Andes and along with the camelids are South America's only domesticated animals.

In cases in which animals are domesticated for food, most modern countries are striving for better animal welfare practices that minimize pain and suffering during the killing process with the goal to render an animal unconscious quickly before it is killed.

But if one were able to maintain the large numbers of domesticated / food animals without using fossil fuels to power the farming systems, and didn't make any further land use changes, then there would be no net positive CO2 emissions (there might still be net CH4 emissions, but presumably every CH4 would be released at the expense of CO2, since there's nowhere else for the carbon to come from).

Around ten to twelve thousand years ago, human began to domesticate plants and animals for food.