Sentences with phrase «growing number of animal»

Lucky for dogs everywhere, there are a growing number of animal advocates, rescuers and activists throughout the world fighting on behalf of man's best friend.

Just this year, AdoptAPet.com added direct community re-homing to its services, and a growing number of animal shelters have been providing searchable listings on their websites for community members.

We need community support to continue our mission, and we need the people and funding to provide resources to the growing number of animals who are in need of medical and behavioral support.

A. Because early spaying or neutering is optimal, dogs and cats usually have the surgery at about 6 months of age; with advanced techniques and safer anesthetic drugs, a growing number of animals are being spayed or neutered at 3 to 6 months of age.

Having a litter that you have no intention of keeping will only add to the already growing numbers of animals that end up in shelters each year.

This adoption center will be a space for future pet parents to gather and meet our adoptable pets, allowing us to substantially grow the number of animals we can rescue.

Not exact matches

Beyond Meat is part of a growing number of startups looking to make meat (or something very close to it) without animals in order capitalize on consumers who are attempting to cut back on the amount of meat they eat for environmental, animal welfare, and health reasons.

That translates to staggering numbers of animals grown for food: there are over 30 million head of beef cows in the US, and 21 million pigs in Iowa alone.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

With interest growing in the Meat Free Monday campaign, Paul also points out that vegetarian cuisine needs to show what it can do, not only to counter certain false impressions, but to capitalise on the increasing numbers of people doing their bit for the environment and animal welfare by eating less meat.

Vegan confectionery product launches grew by 140 % between 2013 and 2017, as growing numbers of consumers spurned chocolate and sweets containing animal derived ingredients.

Tesco is leading the charge, with a range of vegan ready meals and snacks, catering to the UK's rapidly growing vegan population — more than 542,000 of us now eat no animal products, more than three times the number of 10 years ago.

So too do a growing number of well - funded start - ups trying to make meat without animals, with a view to addressing concerns about animal welfare and the carbon footprint of meat.

The growing number of extreme weather events that heavily impact livestock production will also likely contribute to rising prices of animal products over time.

And, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to seven: People in Nature, Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, Landscapes, and new this year, Travel.

For 2014, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to six: Mammals will now be a stand - alone category, in addition to People in Nature, Birds, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, and Landscapes.

Organic food is felt by a growing number of consumers to be safer, more nutritious, taste better and to be less harmful to the environment and animal welfare than conventionally produced food, and the market for it has grown in recent years accordingly.

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

Each deer can grow up to twice the weight of North America's white - tailed deer, and the animals now number between 360,000 and 400,000 in Scotland alone, says David Stanton, an evolutionary biologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.

So, if I would try to do this experiment with elephants or even fruit flies, I would need enormous numbers of animals and enormous numbers of animal counter [s], and a tremendous amount of money; but to do this experiment in yeast [is much easier], because we can grow billions and billions of yeast over night.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

The site's newest sections describe the growing number of fly genes known to have close relatives in other animals, including humans — evidence, researchers are discovering, that the animal kingdom is interwoven genetically by its own worldwide web.

As increasing global demand for meat boosts numbers and density of livestock, the market for animal vaccines is predicted to grow from $ 4 billion in 2009 to $ 5.6 billion in 2015, according to a report from analysts BCC Research.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

As growing numbers of people consider pets less as animals and more as family members, Okin said, pampering has increased and the options for pet food with high - quality meat has kept pace.

Growing concern over the dwindling number of plant and animal species has led to a hunt for ways to save them, and in the past decade, the idea of maintaining wildlife corridors — strips of land to connect these sanctuaries — has become popular among conservationists.

Growing numbers of ships in the Arctic could also exacerbate the problem of invasive species, foreign plants and animals that enter and often take over ecosystems.

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that, at least in animals, these unusual fats fight a host of chronic health conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer (SN: 3/3/01, p. 136).

Researchers gathered reports of lionfish sightings from fishermen and divers, discovering that in just one year, lionfish have colonized nearly all of Cyprus» southeastern coast, and that the animals» numbers are expected to grow.

A growing number of findings point to the fact that several dinosaur species were social animals and maybe hunted together and took care of their offspring after they were hatched.

From every litre of nutrient, slime mould and bacteria, the team obtains 50 grams of slime mould cells — ten times the number of cells that can be grown from a litre of animal cell starter.

Although a sunflower oil - derived PS would also fail to match the superior fatty acid structure of animal sourced PS, it would offer the advantage of being soy free and thus suitable for the growing numbers of people who are allergic to soy.

While these levels remain unfortunately low, animal studies provide us with some clues as to how to increase the sulforaphane yield of these bacteria — feed them more.66 In just four days of a high broccoli diet, those bacteria that thrive on cruciferous vegetables grow in number, leading to a change in composition of the microbial community and an increase in opportunistic bacteria that turn our broccoli into cancer - fighting sulforaphane.

Consumption of animal - based products have also been implicated in earlier onset of puberty for girls, which had begun when girls were on average 16 or 17 until the 20th century, but now we see significant numbers of girls starting to grow breasts before they're 8 years old, and increased risk of infertility.

Now the number has grown, and more brands are choosing to make the switch and go vegan and cruelty - free and making a conscious choice about what they put in their products and not testing on animals of any kind.

This can be especially important with the growing number of suburban and rural communities where humans and wild animals are coming into contact with each other.

That scenario's growing ever more common as greater numbers of Americans stop thinking of dogs, cats and other animals as pets — or even mere companions.

The number of custody battles fought over companion animals has grown noticeably in the past decade.

Arguments can be made for either side of this debate but there is one solid fact, and that is the number of rescue and stray animals is growing almost daily.

This new legislation will bring awareness to the general public of the growing number of rescue animals of various species seeking their forever homes.

While the number of no - kill animal shelters grows, the Humane Society of the United States reports that about half of the animals in shelters are still euthanized because of a lack of homes.

Paula Ritter, outreach coordinator for Richmond Animal Care & Control, said the organization is working to develop a foster program as the number of cats and kittens that need homes continues to grow.

More importantly, how do they get the message out that «earlier is better», as they struggle to reduce the growing population of homeless animals that now numbers in the millions.

Since 1968, the Owensboro Humane Society (OHS), a 501 (c)(3) charity, has slowly grown in strength and numbers to stop abuse, neglect and the over breeding of our local animal population.

As the number of mosquitoes starts increasing during the spring and multiply more during the summer, the number of heartworms inside an infected animal grows too.

Over the years as the rescue grew larger with volunteers, the number of animals being saved from year to year also grew, and the rescue was formed into 501 (c) 3 nonprofit (GuideStar Verified) and changed its name to «Last Chance at Life All Breed Rescue & Adoptions.»

The American Partnership for Pets is an unprecedented team of leading veterinary, humane, animal control and fancier organizations, plus a growing number of community partners, that have set differences aside and united to speak with one voice on behalf of our nation's homeless and unwanted animals.

If neighbors begin to complain about the ever - growing number of cats, they are likely to call animal control whose normal protocol is to trap and euthanize.

Tapeworms are found in a number of different animals and can grow to extreme proportions resulting in malnutrition to the host animal.

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194