Sentences with phrase «movement of pigs»

In 2016, retail giant Walmart began using blockchain to track the movement of pigs from China to America.

The movement of pigs throughout the country over that time may mean other outbreaks will occur.

Not exact matches

Tacitus could not know, nor Pliny, that the group of people whom the one thought a danger to society and the other a set of pig - headed cranks were the vanguard of a body which would take charge of the whole new movement, give it directions, and carry it into ages far ahead.

Following this pressure, the National Pork Board recently reported that a majority of pork producers are in the process of switching to alternative housing methods that afford pigs greater freedom of movement.

In 2011 Fox also founded Slopig, billed as a «celebration of heritage pigs and the people who drive the movement.»

These crates do restrict pigs» movements, but farmers use them to control the amount of feed pregnant sows consume.

Waters backs the movement to boycott Israeli goods and services and his concerts often feature visuals such a flying pig emblazoned with a Star of David and a dollar sign.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

Today, 27 farms across the U.K. had reported cases and been quarantined, and the government had prohibited the movement of susceptible animals: primarily cows, sheep, pigs, and goats.

The pigs showed both movement problems and respiratory difficulties common to human patients, and it is hoped that this model will assist in the creation of new treatments for Huntington's — a genetically inherited and fatal disease which affects tens of thousands of people.

Guinea pigs exhibit gut stasis or lack of intestinal movement by eating less and producing fewer feces.

This inaugural exhibition will include works ranging from 2004 to 2010: the 16 mm film projection, Pig (2004); a video projection, Lightbeam (2007); Petit Verre (2007), a processor automated shadow theatre with sound; and Dokumentarfilm (2004), a video work that shows the delicate movement of mist in a forest.

Confessions * of a male chauvinist pig aims to reorganize the photographs into a critical exhibition that places the project in the context of the turbulent 1960s, at the nexus of gender relations buffeted by the conflicting terms of the sexual revolution and the women's movement.