Sentences with phrase «for hundreds of thousands of animals»

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Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

We can trace its existence for not much more than a hundred thousand years, a period so short that it has left no mark on the majority of the animal forms that preceded us on the earth and which still surround us.

That shouldn't be surprising since the human animal has been surviving and thriving in a wide variety of circumstances and climates for hundreds and thousands of years.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

«We hypothesized this because Neanderthals had been living in Central Asia and Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before our recent ancestors ever reached these areas — and thus had likely adapted to the distinct environmental aspects of these regions, compared to Africa, in terms of climate, plants and animals, and pathogens.»

Over thousands of years, the calcium phosphate in an animal's skeleton combines with other minerals in the ground, forming fossils that can survive for hundreds of millions of years.

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

But isn't it strange that humankind has been eating natural fats from animals, olives, nuts and coconut for hundreds of thousands of years and heart attacks have only become a problem in the last 100 years?

If even 5 % of that number bought a Wii U for a Wii U Animal Crossing, that would still be hundreds of thousands.

The Clear the Shelters groundbreaking pet adoption campaign will team up more than 40 local NBC and Telemundo television stations with hundreds of animal shelters from all across the country to find new homes for thousands of homeless pets.

The moral duty to prevent animal - suffering is acted on by hundreds, possibly thousands of women in BC, quietly and without any money but their own or what they can raise at garage sales, without any help from the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BCSPCA) which still kills many cats and refuses help for feral cats (except for a very few).

The moral duty to prevent their suffering is acted on by hundreds, possibly thousands of women in BC, quietly and without any money but their own or what they can raise at garage sales, without any help from the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BCSPCA) which still kills too many cats and gives little help to feral cats.

Join us on Saturday, July 23, at hundreds of participating animal shelters across the country to find new homes for thousands of pets!

So, although I can not always tell you all of the scientific ways that Copaiba has been helpful for arthritis pain and stiffness, clinically we have seen the benefits in hundreds if not thousands of animals (even humans.)

Since its founding in 1927, BHS has found devoted forever homes for hundreds of thousands of wonderful animals, as well as provided low - cost Spay / Neuter and Vaccination services to the community in our Veterinary Center.

As we hurriedly prepared for the opening of the Howard Ash Animal Wellness Center, our entire organization accomplished so much — thousands of animals were placed into loving homes, hundreds of thousands of lives were affected through our extensive pet - focused, community programming and countless lives were saved from unwarranted euthanasia.

Thousands are rescued from animal cruelty cases, and even more have traveled hundreds of miles from under - resourced shelters for a second chance.

Karen's courage, willingness to share, talents as a writer and communicator (and let's face it - downright stubbornness) has changed the lives of millions of animals and hundreds of thousands of humans for the better.

A drover was described as a licensed individual of outstanding character, responsible for taking vast herds of animals numbering from in the hundreds to the thousands — cattle, sheep, pigs, turkeys and geese — to market, and collecting money for the owners of the animals.

From organizing supply drives and raising thousands in funds to making room for hundreds of shelter animals from the south so that displaced pets had a place to stay while they waited for their families to find them, our local animal people went above and beyond.

You can find virtually any breed of animal in your local shelter — purebred or mixed — but consumers continue to pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for dogs from breeders.

Over the course of two weeks, American Humane's emergency responders cared for hundreds of animals, distributed thousands of pounds of pet food and provided hundreds of doses of medication all while working to reunite these pets with their owners.

This is arguably North America's largest non-profit adoption site for pets and boasts of thirteen thousand and nine hundred private and public animal shelters and humane societies who post their pets for adoption.

For seven years, the mission of the Cesar Millan Foundation has been to create and deliver humane education programs, raise critical awareness for the importance of spay / neuter on a local and global scale, and to reduce the senseless killing of shelter animals at a rate of 9,000 a day in the US and hundreds of thousands worldwiFor seven years, the mission of the Cesar Millan Foundation has been to create and deliver humane education programs, raise critical awareness for the importance of spay / neuter on a local and global scale, and to reduce the senseless killing of shelter animals at a rate of 9,000 a day in the US and hundreds of thousands worldwifor the importance of spay / neuter on a local and global scale, and to reduce the senseless killing of shelter animals at a rate of 9,000 a day in the US and hundreds of thousands worldwide.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ---- The 2007 conviction of football star Michael Vick for dogfighting helped hundreds of animal welfare executives and their minions to get filthy rich, yet the animal advocacy groups pocketing the money did little, if anything, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the April 20, 2007 drug bust and April 25, 2007 police raid that sent Vick to prison, sent pit bull advocates laughing all the way to the bank, and ---- indirectly ---- sent tens of thousands of human and animal dog attack victims to hospitals, veterinarians, and often their graves.

«Most Californians agree that we need to put the brakes on the mass breeding of animals who end up in local shelters, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars to care for and eventually euthanize,» said Sen. Cathleen Galgiani (D - Stockton).

Join us on Saturday, August 19, at hundreds of participating animal shelters across the country to find new homes for thousands of pets!

Since then, she has planned and coordinated several fundraising campaigns, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for philanthropic causes supporting education, homelessness, literacy, suicide prevention, cancer research, prenatal research, and animal welfare.

Introduced at the behest of Minnesota's oldest No Kill Shelter, Animal Ark, this bill provides legal protections for animals that are already saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals in two states where similar provisions have already been put into place.

Each year, SPANA provides free care for hundreds of thousands of working animals in need.

«While these dogs are now on the road to recovery hundreds of thousands of others are suffering in equally horrific facilities across the country,» said Rebecca Aldworth, director of animal programs for HSI Canada.

The sale of animals online, from pet stores and unethical breeders underpins an overbreeding crisis which is resulting in hundreds of thousands of needy animals being euthanised every year simply because there aren't enough good homes for them.

Hundreds of animals are placed in responsible homes each year, and thousands are spayed or neutered at the KENT Animal Shelter Clinic at low cost or sometimes free for the public and wellness care such as low cost vaccinations are available in an effort to allow everyone in all financial brackets to take care of their pets.

«New and more effective ways have been developed to test the effects of chemicals on humans, eliminating the need for animal testing... [These] are generally less expensive and less time - consuming than their animal - based counterparts, which sometimes take months or years to conduct, at costs of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For this is a problem that if not controlled may cause the death of tens or hundreds of thousands of helpless victims caused by intense storms and heat waves, the death or sickness of millions that may suffer dengue fever or malaria, the destruction of some nations» ability to grow food or provide drinking water, the devastation of forests and personal property, and the acceleration of elimination of countless species of plants and animals that are already stressed by other human activities.