Sentences with phrase «rearing animals for food»

Post's first burger took three months to manufacture and cost an indigestion - inducing $ 260,000, but he hopes to refine the procedure until it is more cost - effective than rearing animals for food.

They also believe that rearing animals for food is bad for the environment and inefficient and suggest that world food shortages could be solved by farming crops rather than animals.

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Animal welfare activists remind us that hundreds of millions of animals are used each year as idols for questionable research in science and as victims of inhumane treatment in industry, including food industries that rear and slaughter animals for meat.

Livestock are domesticated animals intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food or fibre, or for their labour.

It bothers me greatly that so much of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention soil degradation problems, are related to the intensive rearing of animals for food.

However, a long, hard look at the methods through which animals are intensively reared for food production has led Dr. A-V to start to consider how modern interventions in animal husbandry might damage the gut microbes, and hence the health, of farm animals.

Overuse of antibiotics in animals reared for food has led to antibiotic - resistant strains of bacteria that make treating human illnesses increasingly more difficult.