Sentences with phrase «using higher animal»

There are plenty of reasons to choose organic, it's better for the environment, the animals are reared using higher animal welfare standards and of course organic produce has lower pesticide residues and is GM free.

Not exact matches

Between high costs, high energy use, and even the possibility of environmental destruction — seawater treatment plants can accidentally take in and kill small marine animals — continued research is needed to make the technology safer and more efficient.

Analysts say the deposit is so high that some U.S. producers might cancel their exports to China, which uses sorghum for animal feed and to make booze.

The biggest contributor to this year's high margins was canola, the bright - yellow flowering oilseed crop used to make oil, margarine, animal feed and biofuels.

Inspired by Tinder, two Keller High students use social media to help animals find their forever homes.

Our species is like the other higher animals, apes and whales especially, except for this linguistic capacity and the ability to use symbols to a degree vastly beyond the capacity of other planetary animals.

Some use of subjective terms may be warranted in describing the behavior of human beings and perhaps of higher animals to avoid ponderous circumlocutions, but should be avoided in attempts at the most precise formulations.

The NIH will no longer fund experiments using chimpanzees — based on animal welfare criteria — which is understandable, given chimpanzees» high intelligence and social needs.

Mill uses a distinction between «higher» and «lower» pleasures to respond to the criticism that utilitarianism can not account for the moral significance of the differences between human beings and (other) animals.

This gift of theological freedom comes at a high price, because human beings can use it to violate the social, political, and economic freedom of other human beings, inflict great suffering on other animals, and destroy the planet in general.

For dairy farmers, the product promises more heifer calves from the highest genetic merit animals in the herd, as it is recommended for use on maiden heifers.

Ilse Aigner said the label would make it possible for consumers to see which products were made using a very high level of animal welfare.

Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that combines best environmental practices, a high level of biodiversity, the preservation of natural resources, the application of high animal welfare standards and a production method in line with the preference of certain consumers for products produced using natural substances and processes.

PKE's high fibre content makes it a valuable protein - based feed for animals, and it is used by some super-dairies to feed cattle.

I may be able to use egg whites (animal source of vitamin A — tetinol in yolks damages the digestive tract of celiacs, and yolks are high in iodine which flares the dermatitis) and chia seeds as egg substitute.

Unlike high - fat animal - based foods or processed sources of fats, plant - based sources like seeds, avocado, and many nuts contain beneficial fats and protein that our bodies can use for proper thyroid function and will also keep our hearts healthy too.

So they used five times heated palm oil (5HPO) to induce high blood pressure in rats bred for animal study research, Sprague - Dawley rats.

It is used for cooking higher grade organic residues intended for animal feed.

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

Today, the adoption of high - yielding, uniform cultivars and varieties has led to a considerable reduction in the number of plants and animals used in agriculture.

We use the animal welfare guidelines from the National Turkey Federation and the Global Food Safety Initiative guidelines for food safety as the auditing criteria for our hatcheries, grower farms and processing plants, and we consistently score in the highest category.

As part of Nicky USA's commitment to using the whole animal while providing the highest quality meat available, we've created our own line of specialty sausages bringing old world craftsmanship together with creative recipes and a passion of innovation.

«It is important that authorised veterinary antibiotics remain available for vets to prescribe and use responsibly to maintain our high standards of animal health and welfare.»

To promote high standards of conduct in the field and publish a number of codes of practice covering many aspects of firearms safety and use, the conduct of shooting sports, pest control and animal welfare.

Everyone who cares about animals understands the importance of responsible medicine use, high standards of biosecurity, use of vaccines and farm health planning.

The Dr Hadwen Trust was «appalled to learn that despite the growing consensus in the scientific community that challenges the validity of animal use for human health, animal use has reached its highest level for 24 years.»

These should obviously be done as humanely as possible and according to the highest ethical standards, but if we are not prepared to ban meat - eating, it follows that these other uses for an animal should be allowed too.

The kibble uses only whole - prey sources with no animal by - products for the high - quality protein your cat deserves.

Schmidt et al. used high - resolution proteomics, electrophysiology, biochemistry, and immunocytochemistry on wild - type and knockout cells and animals to study PMCA - interacting proteins.

«Our results using an animal model suggest that a maternal high - fat diet during pregnancy and lactation could have significant and lasting effects on the brain, behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.

By using engineered zinc - finger nucleases (ZFNs) designed to target an integrated reporter and two endogenous rat genes, Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and Rab38, we demonstrate that a single injection of DNA or messenger RNA encoding ZFNs into the one - cell rat embryo leads to a high frequency of animals carrying 25 to 100 % disruption at the target locus.

Now Hetem and colleagues have used that foretaste of change to show that higher temperatures might hammer the normally heat - tolerant aardvarks by shrinking the animals» food supply.

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification / laser photogrammetry — making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.

Increasing requirement for farmers to adopt higher standards for food safety and biosecurity, become less reliant on the use of antimicrobials and hormones, and provide assurances regarding animal welfare, in order to remain compliant with regulations and competitive

«We used high - resolution animal tracking tools to describe in as much detail as we could the ecology of the mantas and their connection to this particular marine habitat,» McCauley explained.

Using data from high - speed video recordings of 96 feedings, the researchers measured the speed of the salamanders» tongue thrusts as the animals ate crickets, termites, and other bugs.

Costa has been at the forefront of developing high - tech tracking devices and using them to study marine animals.

BPTES has been used in animal models for a variety of cancers but has not substantially reduced tumor sizes, probably because the drug concentration in tumor tissue is not high enough when using conventional drug formulation methods, say the scientists.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Thus, in order to successfully produce the main types of «the energy currency» under a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide, the intestinal microflora inhabitants should use a unique type of terminal oxidases, which is missing in the cells of humans and animals,» says Vitaly Borisov.

Researchers found that this solid matter may contain higher concentrations of antibiotics than unprocessed manure, a discovery that is particularly disturbing because this material is often released into the environment when it's used as animal bedding or sold as fertilizer.

Lee adds: «Such aspects include effective use of land unsuitable for growing crops, production of higher quality protein and more bioavailable micronutrients, improved animal welfare, prosperous rural communities and flood prevention.

Overall antibiotic use is higher in food - producing animals than in humans, but the situation varies across countries and classes of antibiotics.

At 24 kilohertz, the waves used are too high - pitched to be audible to humans — but can be heard by animals such as cats or bats.

The lowest - cost option provided pathways that the animals were unlikely to use, but by adding another $ 1.5 million to the low - cost option, the resulting corridor became nearly as good as the highest - priced option.

Although animal ingredients are used, the majority of such traditional treatments rely on bitter herbs and flowers to cure everything from insomnia to high cholesterol, as I found out after submitting to an examination by a trained doctor at the store.

Forty - three dives using a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) as well as snorkeling excursions have resulted in almost 20,000 underwater photographs, a collection of more than 500 marine plants and animals and 100 hours of high definition video.

The animal could have launched itself like a pole vaulter, pushing forward with its hind limbs and using its powerful arms to thrust it high enough into the air to stretch its wings and fly away.

After tranquilizing the cougar using a long pole, they lay the 100 - pound animal on a tarp, drew blood for DNA analysis, tagged the cat's ear and strapped a high - tech collar equipped with a GPS device and motion sensor around its neck.