Sentences with phrase «of pig industry»
In late 1998 and early 1999, hundreds of pig industry workers in Malaysia and 11 employees of a Singaporean slaughterhouse came down with a severe form of encephalitis that killed about 40 % of its victims.
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When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.
The Victorian Government's proposed reforms to planning controls for animal industries could mean the collapse of pastured pigs and poultry farms in Victoria.
Papa John's support for the elimination of pig cages from its supply chain supports the food industry's view of gestation crates as unsustainable and inhumane.»
How many cases of extreme cruelty must we uncover before the industry acknowledges that there's something rotten at some considerable number of industrial pig farms throughout the nation?
«If this is the best that Smithfield can do, it is evident that there are terrible problems in the nation's pig industry,» stated Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.
«The reality is that the only way that consumers will feel confident that the entire pig industry is acting on the cruelty of sow stalls is if Woolworths and other retailers follow Coles» ethical lead and commit to their pork products being sow stall free by 2014.
Harris Teeter has committed to sell nearly four times the amount of cage - free eggs as the grocery industry's national average, phase - in pork from suppliers that don't use gestation crates to confine breeding pigs and dramatically increase the amount of poultry it sells from producers that use a less - inhumane slaughter system called «controlled - atmosphere killing.»
This industry titan's decision to eliminate the perpetual confinement of breeding pigs inside small cages from their supply chain reinforces the food industry's view of gestation crates as unsustainable and inhumane.»
«We applaud Bruegger's Bagels for its work to improve the lives of pigs in the pork industry,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
In the pork industry, the vast majority of breeding pigs are confined day and night during their four - month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals» bodies, preventing them from even turning around.
The HSUS is urging Tyson Foods to join its competitors in the pork industry and commit to phasing out the extreme confinement of breeding pigs in gestation crates.
In talks with fund managers, Rivalea outlined its growth plans but did not shy away from the challenges facing the industry in terms of soft pig prices and costs of production which are heavily dependent on grain prices.
In Seaboard's news release following the investigation, the company defends its permanent immobilization of pigs in gestation crates as standard «U.S. industry practices,» despite repeated representations in other public materials that exceeding industry standards is «what separates Seaboard from other companies.»
«Meat may be delicious, but the way cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are reared uses lots of fossil fuels and creates lots of CO2 — more than the car industry.
The desperation of an industry defending the indefensible is reflected in the bizarre claims being put forward — from «hens in cages are safe from the weather» and «are likely to live longer» — to factory farmed pigs are protected from «climatic extremes».
But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.
Rising consumer awareness during this time has led the pig industry to voluntarily restrict the use of sow stalls, and has underpinned moves by retailers to shift away from cage eggs as well as pork / bacon / ham that has been produced in facilities that confine mother pigs in sow stalls.
The RUMA Targets Task Force comprises a leading vet and farmer from each of the beef, dairy, eggs, fish, gamebird, pig, poultry meat and sheep sectors, who have been consulting with key organisations in their respective industries.
Pig Power Pays Off Page 58, by Wendee Nicole A burgeoning industry is going whole hog on a new kind of sustainable energy technology.
Although pig farming is a longtime practice in Malaysia, the industry had recently grown from many small family farms to include a few intensive operations that were large enough to satisfy the demand from non-Muslim communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and other parts of Southeast Asia.
ATLANTA — Scientists are a step closer to understanding the origin of a virus that killed 105 people in Malaysia last year and destroyed the country's pig industry.
The system is being studied for use in the pig breeding industry to determine the quality of boar semen and can also be used to screen large numbers of men for fertility in industrial situations which involve possible chemical or radiation hazards.
IRTA offers expertise and facilities to internal and external clients (academic and industry) for fundamental and applied research on bacterial and viral vaccines, including expertise on pigs, poultry and ruminants in the fields of epidemiology, microbiology, virology, immunology, pathology, molecular biology, and entomology.
The cows, pigs, chickens and other animals raised for food across the globe — and the industry of which they're a part — contribute more to rising temperatures and oceans than all the planes, cars, trucks, boats and trains in the world.
PIGSustain: Predicting the impacts of intensification and future changes on UK pig industry resilience Lead PI: Dr Lisa Collins, University of Lincoln, in collaboration with researchers from University of Reading, University of Leeds and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - # 2,102,293.73 (fEC)
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In an introductory company presentation sequence that Bong directed like a three - act ballet, Lucy walks reporters through the firm's newest endeavor, Super Pig Project, where 26 farmers around the world are tasked to raise their own «revolution of the livestock industry» for ten years before Mirando's QA crew arrives.
PETA wants GIANTS Software to create an accurate depiction of the farming industry with Farming Simulator 2017, so it's asked them to add slaughter footage showing pigs that are killed by being «hung upside down, stabbed, and dropped into scalding - hot water».
After considering the issues involved, I have opted my daughter out of the New SAT and she will be using tomorrow to learn rather than serve as a guinea pig for the testing industry and the Connecticut State Department of Education.
The truth is Connecticut's public school students have become guinea pigs for the Corporate Education Reform Industry and implementing a test that is designed to ensure failure for the vast majority of our children is nothing short of child abuse.
«If everyone is just selling dry goods, then where are they going to see or be exposed to pets and have a place to get that hamster, rabbit, guinea pig, bearded dragon or that first goldfish — or whatever the case might be,» says Doug Poindexter, president of the World Pet Association (WPA), an industry organization that hosts the annual SuperZoo trade show and America's Family Pet Expo, a consumer show held in California and Washington every year.
Dr. Tokach works to improve the health of pigs, swine operations and the future of the veterinary industry.
The pet industry risks losing a generation of future pet parents to video games and smart - phone apps if kids have no firsthand experience in caring for an aquarium, playing with a guinea pig or watching a bearded dragon in its habitat.
Nintendo will undoubtedly continue doing their thing while taking on market trends very slowly, but for many (myself included) the thought of a Nintendo console is a thrilling prospect and yet a frustrating one as Nintendo's attitude towards basic industry standards such as network infrastructure including voice chat, trophies, and easily manageable friend lists is apparently pig - headed.
Though Light is best known for his Women of Industry series, he has devoted himself to evoking the human - like nature of animals that have influenced human civilization such as birds, pigs, giraffes and dog included in this show.
And, of course, anyone who disagrees with them is an idiot, anti-earth, or just a greedy capitalist pig («industry»).
**** In late 2015, any one of our political betters caught paying lip - service to the wind industry can be fairly branded «pig ignorant»; or, if not just willfully blind to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, then a «piggy with his trotters firmly planted in the subsidy trough».
And pigs will sprout wings and fly when the fossil fuel industry complains that people are burning far too much of their products.
But with large swathes of both ends of the political spectrum sucked into the wind power fraud, those pleas fall on deaf ears: either the product of political pig ignorance; or of political piggies with their trotters in the wind industry subsidy trough.
In coke plants, coal is carbonized, not combusted, to make coke, which is used in the manufacture of pig iron by the iron and steel industry.
Swedes are eating more and more chicken meat and have been encouraged by both pundits and industry to do so, as chickens are supposedly more climate friendly than either pigs or beef cattle, notorious consumers of food and water.
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Seattle & LA About Blog Thin Pig Media (TPM) is a full service boutique marketing agency with extensive expertise in the hospitality and entertainment industries providing a wide range of services, including traditional media, digital media, and social media marketing.