Sentences with phrase «thousands of dead animals»

Most people have no idea that rendering factories process thousands of dead animals, gallons of kitchen grease, and tons of frying oil into animal feed.

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But, even if the rains come soon, recovery of the worst - hit sections will take many years, for even 300 - year - old live oaks and tough mesquite trees are dead, the ground cover is gone, and thousands of wild animals have perished.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

«Thousands of people are involved in handling dead animals in Britain, and unbelievable numbers of animals are lying around, yet we have only one human case,» says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Smith describes how carcasses of zoo animals and «thousands of dead dogs, cats, raccoons, possums, deer, foxes, snakes, and the rest that local animal shelters and roadkill patrols must dispose of each month» are rendered.

«A potentially very large Arctic source of methane to the atmosphere is the decay of organic matter in the form of dead plant, animal and microbial remains that have been frozen in shallow permafrost for tens of thousands of years,» it said.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of small pasture - based dairies have disappeared, their production replaced by CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)-- crowded industrial facilities that use methods linked to a variety of health and environmental problems, from antibiotic resistance to «dead zones» in coastal waterways.