Sentences with phrase «than a breeding animal»

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An economics that understands this destiny will yield societies happier and healthier than the ones that see man as an animal raping the earth and breeding to his own destruction.

otherwise every catholic woman would be like the duggars and the catholic women would be nothing more than an animal for breeding.

Increasing breeding infrastructure: current requirement of artificial insemination doses for entire milch animal population is more than 740 million, against that merely 10 % semen doses are available.

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Heritage Fire will showcase more than 45 notable chefs and butchers from Colorado alongside top chefs from around the country, cooking 3,000 pounds of heritage breed animals in celebration of breed diversity and family farming.

More than 80 percent of breeding pigs in the U.S. 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 investigation documented breeding sows confined in tight gestation crates, barely larger than the animals» own bodies, unable to even turn around.

Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones, limiting vaccine use, not using routine antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.

Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones or antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.

Each year, more than 250,000 visitors interact with costumed historians, experience up - close demonstrations of early American trades, and meet heritage breed farm animals.

Rather than penalising certain breed types, which compromises the welfare of the animal, Dogs Trust wants to see a clear legislative focus on «deed not breed» and a new dialogue on the social problem of «dangerous owners»..

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Dogs vary in size more than any other land animal and come in 155 breeds in the U.S. alone, according to the American Kennel Club.

Thirty goats are devoted to making ATryn among a transgenic herd of more than 300, and an additional 1,200 nontransgenic animals are kept for breeding.

Previous research showed that animals that breed in this way are more likely to live in harsher climates, such as deserts, than those who go it alone.

«With artificial insemination, male breeding animals can produce more than one hundred thousand offspring.»

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Compared to 1990, the number of tests involving animals bred with harmful genetic defects rose by 28 000, to 170 000, and transgenic creatures were subjected to 62 000 procedures, 14 000 more than in 1990.

Serious conservation zoos cost a great deal more to run than mere menageries, which simply keep familiar animals that breed easily.

The U.S. government decided in 2008 that there were no discernable differences between cloned and noncloned cows, goats and pigs, so it allowed the process in those animals, although mainly for breeding rather than meat production.

He found that the animals» reproductive systems aged more slowly than their mainland relations» did: More than half enjoyed a second breeding season, a luxury for opossums.

Researchers have bred butterflies to have disproportionate wing - to - body ratios, suggesting that natural selection plays a larger than expected role in determining animal form.

«This means that the odds of an individual animal making it across I - 15, surviving to set up a territory, successfully breeding, and then their offspring breeding so the genes are spread throughout the population is harder to have happen naturally than one would expect.»

The fieldwork revealed that adult animals were more likely to get infected, which makes sense because they are in closer contact with each other — through fighting for mating and breeding, for example — than are juveniles.

It's not known whether the leashes in the Shuwaymis rock art panels are literal or symbolic, but it certainly suggests these Holocene hunters had a lot of control over their dogs, that some dogs could have been more valuable than others (and therefore kept closer), and that the people likely bred and trained these animals.

Domestic pigeon breeds exhibit more phenotypic diversity than any other domesticated animal.

While some breeds are said to be less allergy - inducing than others, experts say any furry animal can cause symptoms in susceptible individuals.

Unaware to the film, this nightmare could be a vision that Carmen, a self - described clairvoyant, passes along to Beth, suggesting in Freeway a temperament less on par with a collie than a bull terrier, the breed featured in Baxter, a 1989 French film, whose anthropomorphism is unusual for its anti-Disney idiosyncrasy of having an animal depict the baser side of man.

Meeting these dogs and the other 173 dogs representing 37 breeds proved to be one of the most emotionally wrenching experiences I've had in more than 20 years of animal related rescue work.

Whether it is because far more dogs are purchased overall than cats, or that mixed breed cats carry less stigma than their canine brethren, the discussion of mass production of companion animals usually centers on dogs.

Not many subjects «breed» more misinformation than the spaying and neutering of our companion animals.

Some cat breeds are more affectionate than others, some get along with other animals better, and some cats are more prone to being loners.

Veterinary research has noted that toy breeds tend to have more reported cases than larger animals.

For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one year of age, there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs of the same breed.

If you are thinking of welcoming a new furry companion into your life, the best thing you could possibly do is adopt a shelter animal — a decision which could potentially save their life — rather than giving your money to the commercial puppy breeding industry.

Today's Featured Animal Communication Testimonial» I've been working with dogs for more than 20 years, training, showing, grooming and breeding.

A study released this month in Applied Animal Behaviour Science finds that environmental factors and even owner characteristics have more to do with whether or not a dog will be aggressive than merely breed type.

In an article on the most popular cat breeds in the Chicago Tribune, pet columnist and certified animal behavior consultant Steve Dale reported that fewer than 10 percent of the 74 million pet cats in the US are pedigreed.

Even while a number of U.S. residents already opt to adopt rather than shop for their feline and canine companions, a large majority still choose to go for animals from breeders, whether full bred or a designer mix.

«Called the Lab - golden, the new breed is more patient with their masters than the traditionally used animals, which include Labs, Goldens, German shepherds and, for those allergic to fur, Boxers.

Many animal welfare advocates encourage would - be adopters to focus on characteristics that are far more important than breed when it...

On the simple basis that it is a fact that more companion animals are being bred than there are homes for, we can see sense in the argument that there is no reason to sell, en - mass, animals bred specifically for sale, when there are so many animals already looking for homes in rescue centres and pounds worldwide.

Passed in 1966, the Animal Welfare Act states the following requirement, «Any breeder who has more than 3 breeding dogs, and sells puppies for commercial purposes, must have a license issued by the Department of Agriculture.»

There have been instances that certain breeders especially those dealing with purebreds do not practise the strict guidelines of proper breeding which produces inferior dogs and do this because these people are more concerned about financial gain rather than the welfare of the animal.

They have absolutely no control over where they came from or if they will live or die and did NOTHING to deserve any of it, I understand over crowding in shelters is a huge issue but doesn \» t it make since that rather than pay BIG many for a specific breed of animal humans should pay that money to adopt an animal which would go to the shelters to either enlarge the facility or build more, paying for feeding and upkeep of this poor babies until they find a loving home.

But Sen. Steve Farley, D - Tucson, who opposed the deal, said those standards allow breeding animals to be kept in cages round the clock that are only six inches larger than the dog or cat itself.

As they're a banned breed for domestic owners in many parts of the US, an added attraction is that it's less expensive to rescue them from animal shelters than to buy them from established breeders.

Hypoallergenic dog breeds are cross breeds that are safer for those with severe allergic reactions to animals than other types of dogs.

Animal control departments in at least 25 U.S. states report that pit bulls are biting more than all other dog breeds.

The cliff's notes: If a breeder has more than 4 breeding females (animals with the capacity to be bred, meaning not spayed) on their premises, or they ship puppies SIGHT UNSEEN, they must be licensed.