Sentences with phrase «into feedlots»

You could not crowd animals into these feedlots or feed them this highly concentrated ration without giving them antibiotics.

However, a few certainties apply to every load of cattle coming into the feedlot.

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Since we can't even guarantee that enlightened egotism will save the world from a nuclear doomsday, what will prevent the earth from turning into a gigantic feedlot for 40 or more billion people?

The footage takes them into the world of Australian cattle farming, transportation, feedlots, processing and end markets, such as restaurants.

«In Bahrain we watched MLA staff at the main feedlot ensuring sheep were not going into boots, but they seemed oblivious to the fact that small trucks were regularly leaving the feedlot with more animals that could be needed for individual purchasers.

To make matters worse, these disease - prone, corn - fed cows are packed into filthy feedlots and live in close quarters amid pools of manure, eating dirty food and drinking dirty water.

On either side, what used to be cotton fields and cattle feedlots, and before that catclaw bushes and cactus scrub, has turned into suburban sprawl.

Conventionally, feedlot managers would divert this liquid into huge, smelly ponds or lagoons — some 10 - feet deep or more, explains Bryan L. Woodbury, an agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Nebraska.

POWRANNA Australia (Reuters)- Thousands of Black Angus bulls snort steam gently into the frigid early morning air at Tasmania's largest cattle feedlot as they jostle for space at a long grain trough.

In 1958, endocrinologist Roy Hertz proposed that certain chemicals found in feedlots could find their way into the human body and mimic hormone activity.

Some of ag's CO2 is emitted directly by feedlots, farm equipment, and related transportation activities; some (such as unwanted leaves, stems and the like) is recycled into the soil but still remains in the active carbon cycle; some (probably a small fraction) is transpired or excreted by humans and our commensals.

Cows ate grass in their home out on the range»Til the land got developed into towns Now they're in the feedlot and they're eatin» corn flakes With some hormones to wash»em down And instead of fertilizin'the fields where they graze Those big brown piles are risin» - day after day