Sentences with phrase «modern farm cows»

It is also naïve in the extreme to believe that modern day fruits and vegetables have anywhere NEAR the nutritional profile of wild grown plants tens of thousands of years ago (even organically grown ones), or that modern farm cows have the mineral content in their meat that wild game did back in our ancestor's time (This point is relevant because it illustrates the limitations of attempting to duplicate historical diets).

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Their farm is an old - fashioned pasture - based, mixed species (they also raise cows, pigs, and turkeys), soy - free farm that employs modern technologies and biodynamic techniques.

Three decades later here at Tasilikulooq (TA - SEE - LEAK - U-LOCK), a modern Inuit farm of green pastures flanked by lakes, a couple of McGovern's students and others are busy exploring the remains of a medium - sized farm that once housed sheep, goats, horses, and a few cows.

Modern fish farming practices often raise fish near the top of the food chain (affecting populations of fish that eat or are eaten by these species) and contain thousands of fish in tiny pens (similar to commercial chicken or cow operations).

Because of modern factory farming methods and the levels of pesticides used in farming, dairy products contain residues of pesticides used in growing grain that is fed to cows, as well as the hormones and antibiotics given directly to cows.

Unlike milking practices adopted by ancient nomadic cultures that restricted milking to the early months of pregnancy (when hormonal levels in the pregnant cows were relatively low), modern dairy farms maintain pregnancy in dairy cows about 80 % of the year and milk throughout pregnancy, even during months when hormonal levels are relatively high.

They feed and milk the cows, grind the wheat, and are unable to take advantage of much in the way of modern harvesting machinery — though in one scene an older man demonstrates a coffee - making machine to a group of Americans assigned to the farm while awaiting orders to fight.

The original Berner Sennenhund was an all - around farm dog, used to guard the farm, drive the cows to and from their mountain pastures, and pull carts loaded with milk cans to the dairy; modern Berners retain some, although not necessarily all, of these instincts.

At the center of it is a way of managing a cattle herd virtually unique in modern farming (though it wouldn't have been far out of place in pre-industrial times): No cows, bulls or oxen are killed at all; all cows are hand - milked; cows suckle from their mothers; and bulls are given work.