Sentences with phrase «numbers of animals»

Hardly a deterrent as she immediately continued her mill, inflicting suffering for years on untold numbers of animals.

I can \» t begin to imagine the untold numbers of animals who have suffered at the cruel hands of humans.

Many shelters are suffering from decline in staff, decline in funding, and increased numbers of animals in their care — I think maybe we are hitting the tipping point.

Even with these omissions, this estimate is 100 - 1000 times higher than our estimates for the numbers of animals affected by advocacy for companion or lab animals, suggesting that farm animal advocacy is the most important cause of the three — at least in terms of the number of animals involved.

So why, in light of the numbers of animals destroyed every day in the US, is there ANY tolerance for importing dogs from around the world into the country for adoption while dogs are still being killed at the same rate every day here?

Spay / neuter is the only permanent, 100 - percent effective method of birth control for cats and dogs and a proven way to reduce the vast numbers of animals who are born only to die prematurely and without a family who loves them.

The net effect of the Hayden Act in reducing the numbers of animals killed in California shelters remains difficult to measure.

The residents of Puerto Rico want change, but are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of animals in need, and they lack the resources to solve the problem.

Cummings explained her goal was to stop the numbers of animals that enter the shelter because of people's irresponsibility.

When food is plentiful, numbers of animals increase.

Such farming involves large fields and / or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides and fertilizers), and a high level of mechanization.

Where no alternative method is recognised by the legislation of the Union, the numbers of animals used may be reduced by resorting to other methods and by implementing testing strategies, such as the use of in vitro and other methods that would reduce and refine the use of animals.»

Despite the large numbers of the animals, «finding monkey feces is not as easy as you would think,» Jones - Engel says.

Previous studies may have overestimated the numbers of animals by counting cheetahs just passing through an area as permanent residents.

Importers such as Tepedelen also supply small numbers of animals to zoos and scientists.

But if there is no indication of an elevated risk, he says, the effects of exposing animals to such a combination repeatedly are not studied, in part to reduce the numbers of animals used in testing.

«Thousands of people are involved in handling dead animals in Britain, and unbelievable numbers of animals are lying around, yet we have only one human case,» says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Scientists routinely include large numbers of animals to smooth out the noise from individual differences.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfare Act.

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.

Those scientists who act blindly unconcerned about the numbers of animals they use or the cruelty of experimental conditions have no idea how monstrous they appear to some of the public.

PCR analysis of mtDNA is increasingly used by field biologists to track the relationships or numbers of animals in the wild.

For his Ph.D., Franco has been researching the application of the «three R's» of animal experimentation — ethical principles first proposed in 1959 that include, where possible, «replacement» of the use of animals, «reduction» in the numbers of animals used, and «refinement» of animal husbandry and experimental procedures so that they are less painful and distressful to the animals.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfare Act.

Such farming involves large fields and / or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of mechanization.

Computer models suggested that the hotspots are optimal sites for no - fishing zones because they contain many species, but lower numbers of animals than elsewhere, perhaps because of competition between species.

But large numbers of the animals together may create currents that stir oceans.

The RSPCA immediately challenged the Government to «prove it has a genuine commitment» to reducing the numbers of animals used in laboratories.

Animal testing peaked in the early 1970s, and has been in decline since, due to both increased public pressure to reduce the numbers of animals tested and the development of available alternatives.

It should be noted that where few animals are used, small variations in the numbers of animals can lead to large percentile differences.

Neither the government nor the live export industry was willing to take this obvious measure to reduce suffering, even though both admitted that religious festivals such as the Eid al Adha (or «Festival of Sacrifice») where large numbers of animals are sold to individual buyers presented the greatest risks to Australian animals.

It's used as a bizarre entry point to the faith, as described above, largely because it features copious numbers of animals.

The people who profit by exploiting large numbers of animals on factory farms «do not need our approval.

San Francisco - based Memphis Meats produces meat from self - reproducing cells, thereby producing meat that is an «animal - based» product but avoiding the need to breed, raise, and slaughter huge numbers of animals.

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.

The number of animals onboard flights has increased 150 % since 2015 according to Delta.

However, Delta claims steep increase in the number of animals on flights over the last few years reflects an abuse of the policy.

The announcement follows a significant increase in the number of animal - related safety issues over the past several years.

PETA focuses its attention on four main areas in which the largest number of animals suffer the most intensely including factory farms: the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.

If cultured meat weren't able to become cost - competitive with conventional meats, then it may have a very limited impact on the demand for conventional meats and so a very limited impact on decreasing the vast number of animals subject to industrial agriculture.

However, the large number of animal advocates on their board does provide a positive indication that GFI will stay focused on areas that are most likely to help large numbers of animals.

If successful, the two companies that have launched under GFI's influence in the past year are expected to produce commercial plant - based products that will compete with existing animal products within one year.41 If those products reduce the demand for animal products, this could affect a large number of animals.

The biblical story says that Noah planned for it, that the flood covered all land, that a number of each animal (2 or 7 depending upon which chapter you believe) were saved, as were a few members of Noah's family.

Given the number of animals available, it is curious that Jesus chooses a hen.

Let's face it: Noah's Ark is totally impossible — the ship is way too big to be made of wood but WAY too small for the number of animals taken.

The number of animals taken on the ark was about 16,000 including dinosaurs.

Even with the «kinds» of animals argument, doesn't that put the total number of animals over 50,000?

While the amount of pain involved and the number of animals affected is disputed, [44] these events have occurred and to some extent still occur, but hard data is lacking.

The number of animals exported live out of Australia is set to increase as Australia prepares to enter into a A$ 1 billion trade agreement with China.