Sentences with phrase «value of animals for»

From heart disease to autism to veterans with PTSD, this session will unveil cutting edge research that investigates the therapeutic value of animals for humans.

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Good news for party animals, Patel says the biggest value of a conference is the after parties.

Cramer called the spinoff of Terraform a brilliant move for Sun Edison as building and operating these facilities are very different animals that investors can now value separately.

Qualifying expenses for an animal «employee» can be taken, so can items of value that are donated to charity — like a wedding dress.

Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.

Still, this commitment is sufficiently prominent in the tradition to provide contemporary Buddhists with a basis for protest against the economic theory that the only value of animals is the price humans will pay for them and against the factory farming that this theory supports.

Indeed, the unique and intrinsic value of human life merely for being human is under concerted attack across a broad array of disciplines — bioethics, animal rights, radical environmentalism, and Darwinism.

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

Yet, for process thinkers, an important value, the virtue of creativity, is the zest for novelty and adventure — characteristics of life itself, particularly in the more complex forms, such as animals with central nervous systems.

What Griffin seems to have in mind here, are worlds that would be radically different from the world as it actually exists — worlds in which, for Instance, beings capable of high - level intrinsic values exist without predation, 4 or in which we and other animals could have existed without requiring food.

For example, in arguing for experimentation on animals Michael A. Fox gratuitously assumes that animals lack intrinsic value on the unsupported proposition that only beings capable of assigning value can have intrinsic value (see FoFor example, in arguing for experimentation on animals Michael A. Fox gratuitously assumes that animals lack intrinsic value on the unsupported proposition that only beings capable of assigning value can have intrinsic value (see Fofor experimentation on animals Michael A. Fox gratuitously assumes that animals lack intrinsic value on the unsupported proposition that only beings capable of assigning value can have intrinsic value (see Fox).

The ultimate emotional and spiritual motives for a sacrifice, the estimated value of a sacrifice, the enormous variety of sacrifices (sacrifices of flowers, incense, drink, animals, all with manifold liturgical and ritual variations) are extremely hard to fathom.

When I learned of the horrific violence and cruelty that billions of animals endure each year to satisfy our tastebuds (not to mention the abuses and mistreatment that factory farm workers endure in order to ensure corporate profit, from being forced to defecate in their pants to operating dangerous equipment without training), I knew that going vegan was the only way for me to live in a manner that was consistent with my values.

Andrew comments that the seed companies in England don't even mention the nutritional values of the grains intended for human consumption on the product sheets, though it is listed on the product sheets for grains intended for use as animal feed.

Regarding saving animal lives, yes it's true that by not eating meat you are not eating those animals but in order for animals to be kept, their value needs to at least cover the costs of feeding them.

«Consumers care about how farm animals are treated, and cramming them in cages where they can barely move for virtually their entire lives is simply out - of - step with those values.»

While Feedback admits that food going to redistributing food for human consumption should be the priority, there is still a great deal of value in using inedible food for animal feed, and once that possibility is ruled out, composting or anaerobic digestion should be considered.

Tossing aside the horrific conditions the animal goes through in captivity, the value, for your body, of eating a largely condensed diet of vegetables is inarguable.

Meanwhile, when used for juicing, around a third of an apple's biomass — known as apple pomace or pulp — remains after the production process finishes, but is currently discarded or used in low - value animal feed or compost.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

Whether it's a piece of land being considered for protection or a long - held parcel in need of a management plan, we use maps and time in the field to develop a thorough understanding of the plant and animal species present and then offer detailed recommendations for managing land to maximize its values.

Through its Core Values, Tyson Foods strives to operate with integrity, create value for its shareholders, customers, communities and team members and serve as a steward of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it.

He stated, «If the Nigerian state will have so much value for animals against humanity to the extent of providing grazing reserves and importing feeds for animals, the Ekiti State Governor has done well to the deserving people of the state.

2011: David Jentsch, Edythe London, and Dario Ringach — Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach were honored for the rare courage they demonstrated in speaking out forcefully for the value of the use of animals in biomedical research, even in the face of grave threats and vicious acts of harassment and vandalism against them and their families.

«NIH needs to stand up for the value of animal studies and allow its researchers to speak more clearly to the public about their work.

If an animal's strontium isotope values differ from what would be expected for its locality, this strongly suggests the animal is an immigrant — it's a way of tracking their mobility.»

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.

The research showed that moral decisions in the con?ned scope of unavoidable traffic collisions can be explained well, and modeled, by a single value - of - life for every human, animal, or inanimate object.

And the outcomes «may alter the view of hybridization in animals as some form of mistake,» comments Loeske Kruuk of the University of Edinburgh, «because it is now clear that we can not take the consequences for fitness at face value.»

This is of little value, so the discarded grain is often used as compost or for animal feed.

It is also of value for diet studies of other animals that can benefit from the possibility of obtaining added information.»

Sheep, alpaca and some other animals have scalelike patterns on the outer layer of each hair (above) that allow the fibers to be twisted together to create yarn and, ultimately, textiles valued the world over for their unique properties.

When livestock such as cattle are killed by wolves, cougars, eagles or bears, ranchers receive payment for the market value of the animal.

It demonstrates too the value of captive breeding, even for such a diverse group as this: not only to preserve at least some threatened species, but also to provide contact between humans and animals, and promote human understanding, without which all conservation is doomed.

Although he acknowledges that the idea of hunting for conservation may work in theory, «there's no point in providing the animal with economic value and then over-hunting them.»

But for Van Dover, that value can not compare with the richness of the thriving animal communities inhabiting Earth's hydrothermal vents.

Of note, the plasma glucose values obtained for our untreated Tg - hIAPP animals were a bit lower than those reported by Janson et al. (1996).

The values correspond to the means ± SE of the results obtained for 5 — 11 animals per group.

Because of a lack of standardised and harmonised preclinical studies, there is limited information we can so far obtain from literature on the relative predictive value of different animal models and alternative methods for vaccine evaluation.

Research will aim to improve the predictive value of animal models for vaccine evaluation, provide consultancy on the selection of appropriate models, and develop innovative approaches to characterise in vivo antigen behaviour and host responses whilst reducing animal use.

BPRC is also involved in the development of assays and biomarkers for the predictive value of animal models in vaccine evaluation.

Expansion of CD34 + cells normalized relative to the values obtained in SFEM medium (dark gray bar) after culturing purified CD34 + cord blood cells for 7 days in StemSpan ™ serum -[SFEM, SFEM II (gold bar)-RSB- and animal component - free ACF (orange bar) media, and six media from other suppliers (light gray bars).

We place significant value upon the use of xenodiagnosis for detecting persistent B. burgdorferi because the spirochetes likely need to be viable in order to migrate from the animal tissues to the site of tick feeding.

Alternative animal replacement models are of great value in studying host - pathogen interaction and for quick screening of various pathogenic strains.

If we multiply digestibility and biological value, we get a measuring index known by nutritionists as Net Protein Utilization (NPU), which stands for the total percentage of the protein that the body can actually use.6 Without exception, animal proteins have a higher NPU than vegetable proteins.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylOF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyFor some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyfor «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Below are the names of each county, as well as values for their daily animal protein intake, the percentage of their total caloric intake coming from fat, and their daily intake of fiber (in case the latter two variables are also of interest).

If you eat animal foods — meat, fish, dairy, eggs — on a daily basis, you are very likely to be meeting or exceeding the Daily Value of 50 grams for protein.

Coupled with the substantial number of animal studies that show improved blood sugar regulation following strawberry intake, as well as the low GI value for strawberries and their provision of nutrients like folate, we expect to see future studies that document the benefits of strawberries for lowering risk of type 2 diabetes in humans, and also perhaps also for improved blood sugar regulation in persons already diagnosed with this condition.

Before I share my secret formula for smoothies, I want to underscore the value of animal based foods in a little one's diet, particularly from 6 — 24 months.