Sentences with phrase «farming ruminants»

As the worst environmental impacts come from farming ruminants such as cattle and sheep, the scientists also recommend a shift towards «mostly plant - based foods.»

All the more reason for phasing out farming ruminant animals.

Not exact matches

«The federal organic regulations make it very clear that all organic livestock must have access to the outdoors and that ruminants, like dairy cows, must have access to pasture,» Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute said in 2014.

White Oak Pastures has officially opened up a new intern / apprenticeship program that shows accepted applicants every aspect of life on a farm — from building fences to raising healthy cattle and small ruminants, as well as administrative duties like -LSB-...]

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

Pound for pound, insect farming emits 1 per cent of the greenhouse gases that raising ruminants like cows and sheep does — and it requires far less water.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and coal or natural gas extraction.

At least 45 farms in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium have so far been affected by bluetongue disease, which infects ruminants such as cows, sheep, goats, and deer.

Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.

They are also used extensively in veterinary research, studies of digestion in ruminants, and research on the impact of farming on the environment.

However, keep in mind that the quantity of healthy trans fats in the meat and dairy of ruminant animals is greatly reduced by mass - production methods of farming and their grain and soy heavy diets.

We will provide hands - on training and supervision with all techniques, including transrectal ultrasound, record analysis using DairyComp305, embryo production in cattle and small ruminants and on - farm investigation of herd wide issues.

Tufts Veterinary Field Service at Cummings Veterinary Medical Center, based in Woodstock, CT, provides farm calls, in - house veterinary care and emergency services for horses, dairy cows, and small ruminants.

Agricultural emission, from rice farming and ruminant animals, is not so easy to quantify either, but we'll leave a description of that to the reader's imagination.

There is a claim, promoted especially by some in the farm sector, that because methane is short - lived, and because methane levels plateaued for a short time while ruminant numbers continued to increase, efforts to reduce emissions from enteric fermentation are therefore worthless or near worthless.