Sentences with phrase «fast dying breed»

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Laying hens suffer their entire lives in battery cages where they can't even stretch their wings and millions of «meat chickens» die every year because they are bred to grow so fast that their legs are unable to support them.

Even semelparity, the live - fast - die - young strategy of growing quickly and throwing everything into one breeding blast, may serve that end by assuring rapid turnover and regeneration.

Mice bred to carry a gene variant found in a third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner than mice with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

There are only about 450 North Atlantic right whales left, including 94 breeding females, and scientists are worried that they are dying at a faster rate than they are being born.

As far as powerful rear - wheel drive sports cars are concerned, they're fast becoming a dying breed, unless you have the funds for some of the Italian stuff.

In a more fearful state of mind Lovelock published books like «The Revenge of Gaia» and in newspaper interviews predicted fast - approaching, global - warming doom stating, «Billions of us will die» and only the «few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic».