Sentences with phrase «from ruminant animals»

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

The Council states that eating less meat from ruminant animals (such as cattle and lamb) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food in Denmark by 20 to 35 percent.

However, trans fats are also naturally present in smaller amounts in body or milk fat from ruminant animals like cows, sheep and goats.

While grass - fed meat from ruminant animals is certainly a healthy «Paleo food,» it by no means constitutes the majority of a typical Paleo diet.

Not exact matches

One widely cited study from 1995 estimated that ruminant animals (such as cows, sheep, and deer) can produce between 250 to 500 liters of methane a day because of how their digestive system works.

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.

It is not yet technically possible to determine whether an extinct animal chewed the cud from stable isotope analysis, although this approach may someday prove to be useful in determining whether a particular fossil indicates a ruminant digestion.

When ruminants are raised on fresh pasture alone, their milk and meat contain as much as five times more CLA than products from animals fed conventional diets.

A lot of people simply do not realize most animal species evolved to get most of their caloric energy needs from fat, even ruminants actually receive their nutrition and calories from the fatty acids generated by the bacteria in their rumen consuming the plant matter.

It is clear from the anthropological record, evolutionary biology and basic anatomy humans are acid digesters, not hindgut or ruminant digesters and thus evolved to be fat burning animals which are uniquely capable of metabolizing sugar on those seasonal occasions where fruits, berries or tubers were ripe.

By itself, liver from land animals, especially ruminants like cattle and lamb, is very rich in vitamin A, 64 while livers from both ruminants and poultry animals have only about 12 IU of vitamin D for every 100 grams.65

GOOD trans - fats are formed in ruminant animals from the FERMENTATION process that goes on in their stomach (s).

There are some naturally occurring trans fats in ruminant animal fats, but these are different than the redheaded stepchildren coming from the hydrogenation process.

Charlottetown, PEI - The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

Dr. David Matsas provides regular veterinary care for the foundation's animals and collects germplasm from the 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.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the environment and for human health.