Sentences with phrase «other ruminant animal»

Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent of the country's total emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long - term punch).

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The USDA national organic standards also require organic livestock production systems to accommodate an animal's natural nutritional and behavioral requirements, to ensure that dairy cows and other ruminants have access to pasture.

Salmon Brook Veterinary Hospital has been caring for large animals including horses, cattle, pigs, camelids, goats and other small ruminants for more than 60 years.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

In a book, «Grass - Fed Cattle: How to Produce and Market Natural Beef,» the author Julius Ruechel theorized that soil was enriched as a result of the migration of giant herds of ruminants and other animals across the world's great plains.

«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the environment and for human health.

Only half the formula for animal - sourced methane was considered because declines in bison, elephant, and many other ruminant populations, though regrettable, were not deducted.

Both products work by killing or stifling the «bad» bacteria that compete with cows for food by lingering in their guts — as well as those of other four - stomached animals like sheep and goats (all called ruminants).