Sentences with phrase «in factory farmed meats»

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One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

They note that while some ecologists are focusing attention on the maintenance of wilderness, we have in fact turned our farms into factories, where meat is produced with no regard whatever for the suffering of the animals involved.

While the move would be welcome if it were to stamp out factory farming and other brutal practices, or result in unethical producers being named and shamed, even «high welfare» meat comes at a cost to the environment.

And while the meat might be more expensive than, say, your average factory - farmed meat at Wal - mart, we have prioritized it in our budget and adjusted other spending accordingly.

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

The vast majority of meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.

Working in a factory farm, slaughterhouse, or meat processing facility, brings some of the highest risk of serious job - related injuries including amputations and accidental death.

Stephen Cottrell, the Bishop of Chelmsford, added: «What I find intolerable and unsupportable is the way we rob factory - farmed animals of anything resembling a normal life, in order to furnish ourselves with... cheap meat.»

NOTE: Current demand for chicken meat in Australia can only be met by factory farming.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

Now, I wish that I could sit around the family dinner table with my dad (who died in 1998) and grandfather (also in the meat business his whole life, died in 2006) and really discuss factory farming, grass - fed meat, high fructose corn syrup, and the genius of Michael Pollan.

And you know, what these folks say again, is «If the people that are buying meat out there in the world had any idea of the way in which meat is produced; if they had a look at, you know, inside a factory farm where animals are raised in their own feces and, you know, slaughtered and then ground up and so on.

What kind of factory farming methods would be, you know, would be involved in order to produce those kinds of quantities of meat?

Presumably he is referring to fast - food nuggets from factory - farmed chickens (fed soy - based feed), their meat then «extended» with soy protein isolate and other additives, the final product fried in soy oil.

Meat from naturally - raised animals is high in omega - 3 fatty acids and often lower in calories than factory - farmed meats.

Can I assume that the meat and dairy products used in the studies came from factory farmed, crowded and stressed animals, fed an unnatural grain diet (and who knows what was added to these grains beforehand), and infused with hormones and antibiotics?

Commonly found in plastics, pesticides, cosmetics, personal care products, our water supply, factory - farmed meats and soy foods, xenoestrogens can be significant «endocrine disruptors» and interfere with the functioning of many systems in the body.

That's why I try to not support the factory farm industry as much as possible (which is most meats and dairy in your supermarket) and instead, I try to eat almost solely grass - fed meats from free ranging animals, wild game, wild fish, eggs from local farmers from free roaming hens, and dairy only from grass - fed cows that are allowed to graze almost entirely on forage.

The animal foods are factory farmed, the grains are refined, genetically engineered and not prepared properly, the fruits and vegetables are grown in poor soil, and on top of these things the food selection minimizes fruits and vegetables, leaves out organ meats entirely, and emphasizes refined grains.

Presumably he is referring to fast - food nuggets from factory - farmed chickens (fed soy - based feed) with their meat then «extended» with soy protein isolate and other additives and fried in soy oil.

Eat LESS of these foods: fried foods, trans fats, conventional dairy, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, factory - farmed meats, processed foods (especially microwave popcorn, due to chemicals in the bag that disrupt hormones)

Given the current practice of commercial factory farming in the American meat / dairy industry, I don't think that statement is far from the truth.

Aside from the obvious problem of defining what our ancestors evolved to eat in light of the diversity of their diets, most paleo - diet fans miss the obvious fact that humans definitely did not evolve to eat the meats of today (even if grass - fed and free - range, although that IS healthier than factory - farmed) or the fish swimming in our polluted seas.

However, as you'll see below in my 20 rules, grass - fed free - range meats can have the same health benefits as wild meats, while avoiding the harmful nutritional components that come with factory - farmed grain - fed meats.

Let's break it down: DIET: eating pro-inflammatory foods like sugar; factory farmed / grain fed meat unnaturally high in the omega 6 fatty acids; refined vegetable oils like canola, corn or soy (read more here); conventional dairy products; processed foods; alcohol, smoking, over the counter and recreational drugs; a gluten rich diet of sandwiches, pasta, crackers, baked goods and other refined grain - based foods.

Organic grass - fed beef has a prime nutritional profile, and it's free of pesticides, GMOs, synthetic growth hormones, toxins from moldy feed, carbon monoxide, and all the other junk you find in factory - farmed / CAFO meat.

(Actually, a lot of toxins are stored in fat, which is another reason why it's important to buy cuts of meat from properly raised, healthy animals, and, that if you do buy meat from factory farmed animals, that you cut the fat off or buy only lean cuts of meat.)

In doing so, it ensures that you get more of the good — fruits and vegetables — and less of the bad processed foods and factory - farmed meat during the day.

About 98 % of the meat, milk and eggs sold in America comes from animals raised on factory farms, also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).

The vast majority of meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.

That's my personal opinion but if you don't eat meat for animal products welfare reasons l why would you thinks it's ok for baby chicks to be macerated for the egg Industry (including free range and organic) and calves shot in the head at a day old and animals abused in factory farms for the milk industry?

As a lowly floor waxer at Rupture Farms, a large meat - processing factory on Oddworld, Abe accidentally overhears the plans of his boss, Molluck the Glukkon, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into a range of new meat products in an effort to save his failing meatpacking empire.

I think in this discussion that we need to distinguish between meat per se & factory farming (what you call conventional meat production).

If a civilization can be measured based on how it treats its animals, what are we to make of one that slaughters them on factory farms and then sells their meat in a vending machine?

Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your meat consumption, you may be most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness: lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating meat supports the intense abuses against animals raised in factory farms.

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Both our fossil fuel addiction and our growing meat addiction as manifested in factory farms need to be addressed collectively.

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Cruelty, I knew that the 10 billion animals we raise each year for meat, are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets.