Sentences with phrase «of animal breeders»

Evidence for evolution was readily observable at a wide range of spatial scales early on, specifically, fossil evidence at one end, and the products of animal breeders and other short - term selections at the other.

We were shocked to discover that the agency responsible for the regulation of animal breeders in Missouri had themselves been sighted for conflict of interest, poor and infrequent inspections and a reluctance to seize animals even those in the worst situations.

Not exact matches

From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.

Several months ago a New Yorker article described the sensation among ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem caused by a Mississippi cattle breeder who noted an unblemished red heifer in his herd, read Numbers 19 and declared that the animal was a sign that the temple must be rebuilt in preparation for the millennial reign of Jesus — regardless of the escalation of mayhem such exegesis in action would heap upon Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy City.

The current absence of regulation for these new technologies in many parts of the world means that genetically modified plants and animals can be released in the environment with no risk assessment and no information for breeders, farmers and consumers.

In addition, ESCAS does not apply to «breeder» animals and dairy cows who are exported but not for the purposes of slaughter, meaning that as soon as they step off a ship, exporters bear no legal responsibility for what happens to them in the importing country.

Inbreeding by scab breeders and kennel owners has resulted in a deterioration of the line of many popular breeds such as poodles, Bedlingtons and boxers, sometimes creating a specific brain disorder, which means that the animal has to be destroyed.

Orland Park began considering the issue after the Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board of Commissioners banned the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from large - scale breeders earlier this year in an attempt to keep pet stores from selling animals raised in puppy mills.

Cook County has since passed its own version of the ordinance, which requires stores to sell pets from government shelters, rescue agencies and humane societies, or federally licensed breeders with no more than five reproducing female animals.

With this new authority in hand, municipalities from Buffalo to New York City, the North Country to Long Island will be able to pass tough new laws to crack down on puppy mills and bad breeders who place profit above the health and safety of animals.

Once signed by county executive Steven Bellone, pet stores will not be able to purchase animals from breeders who have received certain types of violations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates breeders.

The cattle breeders also need to invest in their cattle rearing business; they should buy land and accommodate their animals instead of moving them from one place to the other.

Suffolk County is poised to become the first county in New York State to regulate the sale of animals, as the county legislature unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday that sets a framework for discouraging pet retailers from buying from unsafe breeders.

The breeders were ruthless, killing off the animals of which they did not approve.

These include animals procured from pounds and breeders, a pool that — at least in the past — has been suspected of including stolen and abused pets.

The United Kingdom has a painful history of animal rights extremism that has included break - ins at laboratories, fire bombs, and the violent intimidation of researchers, animal breeders, building contractors working on laboratories, and companies that transport animals.

Among supporters of fewer regulations, Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal breeder at the University of California, Davis, says that some editing is «just a way to enable base pair changes» that doesn't actually add new DNA to an organism.

Animal breeders have sometimes seen such large sperm from livestock, but those turned out to have twice the number of chromosomes they were supposed to and were likely unable to fertilize eggs.

The test could also be used by animal breeders to confirm the virility of a sample.

The resulting book, Animal Cannibalism: The Dark Side of Evolution, is aimed mainly at biologists, plus animal breeders who contend with cannibalism as a bottom - line prAnimal Cannibalism: The Dark Side of Evolution, is aimed mainly at biologists, plus animal breeders who contend with cannibalism as a bottom - line pranimal breeders who contend with cannibalism as a bottom - line problem.

«What we were proposing was nothing new to animal breeders of the 19th century,» Cochran notes.

This discovery may help biologists better understand how cattle and other mammals evolved, as well as help animal breeders and farmers better maintain and enhance fertility in the cattle industry, said Wansheng Liu, associate professor of animal genomics, Penn State.

With little knowledge of the roles that the Y chromosome genes play in fertility, most animal breeders and farmers select bulls based on physical characteristics, such as the size of the testis.

The best - known teachers in the rest of the animal kingdom — meerkats, ants and birds called pied babblers — are all cooperative breeders too.

The unit provides genetic testing services using a combination of both microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels for characterizing and selecting breeders in a wide variety of inbred mouse strains subsequently used for the generation of congenic animals.

Seasonally polyestrous animals or seasonal breeders have more than one estrous cycle during a specific time of the year and can be divided into short - day and long - day breeders:

Meanwhile, the organisms themselves had begun to be packaged as commercial products: In 1941, the breeders at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine received a patent on their line of «JAX Mice» research animals; a year later, the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.»

Larry Seibel, a breeder of exotic animals, explains that when you go to milk a camel, «You can forget what you know about cow milking.»

And the industry's unique — Europe has a controlled & vastly superior product to China, in terms of quality & animal welfare, and Saga Furs & Kopenhagen Fur (its unlisted rival) are the primary auction house conduit between breeders & global luxury / fashion buyers.

Hard copies of these voluntary small animal care standards — which cover sanitation, shipping standards, handling and more — are currently in the hands of more than 100 breeders and distributors.

As an organization whose mission is to end the killing of pets in shelters, of course Best Friends Animal Society encourages people looking for a pet to adopt from a shelter or rescue group, rather than buying from a pet store, breeder or online retailer.

The 2011 Oklahoma legislative session started with a bang as animal advocates closely watched four pieces of senate legislation intended to repeal or seriously amend the Commercial Pet Breeders Act, or SB 1712, a law which passed last year in order to regulate Oklahoma's vast unlicensed puppy mill industry.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

Since quality pet stores are almost exclusively using breeders that are supplying quality animals, it stands to reason that banning the sale of puppies in pet stores will have the largest impact on quality breeders, rather than sub-standard breeders.

But unfortunately, many of those breeders do not bother to teach the new pet owners how to care for the animals or warn them of the possible dangers of owning pets with wild instincts.

Apply some logic, and animal - rights groups» strategy for putting sub-standard breeders out of business makes little sense.

Many breeders have breeding dogs OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) certified to decrease the chance of elbow and hip dysplasia being passed on to their offspring.

Please read the United States Department of Agriculture http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/33002-4-SF.pdf where the Inspector General found that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service had failed miserably in its attempts to regulate dog breeders, especially in Oklahoma where the most heinous of abuses occurred.

She will describe the current need to set higher standards of care for commercially bred animals, the need to certify kennels against the standards, and the tremendous benefits that will accrue to the animals, the dog - buying public and the breeders, themselves.

At the same time, the PLC will enthusiastically champion the vast majority of breeders who care deeply about animals, and who operate above those standards because they care about the animals they breed.

Setting the Standard Presented by Dr. Candace Croney, an associate professor of animal behavior and well - being at Purdue University, this session will illustrate the efforts by Purdue University and the pet industry to establish science - based breeding guidelines, and the benefits that will accrue to the animals, the dog buying public and the breeders themselves.

We have to be prepared to counter sweeping accusations with specific examples of the positive role breeders, distributors and retailers play in the lives of animals.

When pit bull breeder Jerry Southern was convicted of animal cruelty in Kansas he was banned from owning pit bulls in that state.

Reputable breeders do not sell their animals out of the backs of trucks!

While many of the responsible breeders and distributors in these smaller animal categories already hold themselves to internal care standards, and many retailers conduct audits of their vendors to ensure that protocols are established and followed, there is no common set of standards that we in the industry can point to with pride when legislators ask what we do to protect animals throughout the breeding and sales process.

The term «hobbyist» refers to an individual or an organization who is not a commercial breeder but is (1) actively involved in any nationally recognized, organized animal sport or hobby for a period of at least one year prior to making application; or (2) participates in field trials, owns nationally - recognized breeds used specifically as hunting dogs, participates in hunting activities, has held (and continues to hold) a current valid Oklahoma hunting license and has held such license for at least one year prior to making application; or (3) qualifies as a «rescuer.»

The Hunte Corporation's breeder - partners enroll all of the puppies they will be supplying to the company before they are even two weeks old, which Hunte says is critical in maintaining healthy animals.

-RRB- is the governing body of the Animal Welfare Act, and is charged with licensing and inspecting breeders, including puppy mills.

Camille Hulen, owner of Camille's Cat House and an animal welfare advocate, says, «If you buy a purebred animal from a breeder, an animal in a shelter will die because you did not choose it.

The overwhelming numbers of animal neglect complaints regarding high volume breeders lodged with law enforcement, state agencies or humane societies in Oklahoma do not involve facilities that are USDA inspected.