Sentences with phrase «year for human consumption»

More than 2.5 million dogs are confined on South Korean dog meat farms each year for human consumption.

Although most people in South Korea don't regularly eat dogs and the practice is increasingly unpopular with young Koreans, an estimated 2.5 million dogs of all types are still bred and killed each year for human consumption.

Chinese activists are calling on the Chinese Government to stop the routine and widespread criminality of the dog meat trade that slaughters up to 10 million dogs — including stolen pets — every year for human consumption.

Chinese activists called on the Chinese government to stop the routine and widespread criminality of the dog meat trade that slaughters up to 10 million dogs — including stolen pets — every year for human consumption.

An estimated 17,000 dog meat farms operate in South Korea, rearing more than 2.5 million dogs a year for human consumption.

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests, «Roughly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.»

The United Nations Environment Programme reports that roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted.

Killing a cat or dog for human consumption could carry a year in prison and as much as a $ 2,500 fine in the U.S., if the House farm bill becomes law.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

In contrast, China produces 450 pounds of cereal grain per person per year; 350 pounds goes for human consumption and 100 pounds to feed animals.

The United States raises 2,000 pounds of cereal grain per person per year; of that total, 150 pounds is used for human consumption, while 1,850 pounds is fed to animals to produce meat, eggs and dairy products.

Every year, an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes — roughly one - third — of the food produced for human consumption worldwide is lost or wasted -LSB-...]

Every year around the globe 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted, that is a 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption.

Each year, an estimated one - third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted world - wide.

Every year, nearly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Numerous reports and research papers provide statistics on the quantity of food — estimated at a third of what is produced for human consumption — that goes to waste each year.

That is to say, even if all of the kangaroos shot under the commercial quotas each year were used for human consumption, this would be an almost insignificant fraction of Australia's annual red meat production, less than 2 %.

Globally, about one - third (approximately 1.3 bn tonnes) of food produced for human consumption every year is either lost or wasted while moving from farm to fork.

Each year, one - third of all food produced for human consumption is lost world - wide.

Did you know that about one - third of all food intended for human consumption is lost or wasted from farm to fork every year?

The food component of the commodity account, which was derived as a balancing item, was used to refer to the total amount of the commodity that was available for human consumption during the year, including of processed products that were derived from the food commodity, and was expressed as primary commodity equivalents.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

Only about half the weight of the 34 million cattle slaughtered each year is considered fit for human consumption.

‡ 2,127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

Tests of whale meat for sale online in Japan last year revealed mercury levels as high as 47.5 times what is considered safe for human consumption.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Although the viruses are found most often in Africa, they have been unintentionally imported into the United States and Europe several times, and in recent years a version of the Ebola virus has been found replicating in swine raised for human consumption in Asia.

The wheat was cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2004 as safe for human consumption, but Monsanto abandoned commercial development the same year, citing a drop in demand.

In the 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, for the first time in 35 years, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services removed the limit on total fat consumption in the American diet (though they still recommend getting less than 10 % of daily calories from saturated fat).

Rice currently feeds almost half the human population making it the single most important staple food in the world, but a meta - analysis of seven cohort studies following 350,000 people for up to 20 years found that higher consumption of white rice was associated with a significantly increased risk of type 2 diabetes, especially in Asian populations.

Thousands of years ago people living in this region learned that nutrients from the soybean could be made available for human consumption by fermenting the plant in various forms.

Human beings have been consuming saturated fats from animals products, milk products and the tropical oils for thousands of years; it is mainly the advent of modern processed vegetable oil that ihas caused the epidemic of modern degenerative disease — not the consumption of saturated fats.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

More than 10 million dogs are killed for human consumption every year in China.

HSI is one of the leading organizations campaigning across Asia to end the dog meat trade that sees around 30 million dogs a year killed for human consumption.

Mayor Bacon was instrumental in the fight in the Texas federal courts to shut down both horse slaughter houses in Texas. And, last year the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 1949 Texas law that banned horse slaughter for human consumption, a law which had been largely forgotten.Â

Animal protection organisations formed the Asia Canine Protection Alliance to end the inhumane dog meat trade responsible for slaughtering an estimated 5 million dogs for human consumption per year and posing a risk to human health.

By - products from this business were then used to produce food for local farm animals, which allowed the company to grow, eventually adding a mill in the 1930's, and then expanding into food for human consumption a few years later.

The Gyeonggi - do farmer, who has raised dogs for human consumption for 10 years, will now grow mushrooms.

For many house pets this will be the only «human grade» meat they'll get all year (99 % of cat food is made with rendered protein, not approved for human consumption).&raqFor many house pets this will be the only «human grade» meat they'll get all year (99 % of cat food is made with rendered protein, not approved for human consumption).&raqfor human consumption).»

30 million dogs are killed for human consumption through the horrific Dog Meat Trade each year across Asia.

It has been cultivated for human consumption in these two countries for thousands of years.

She has been an ethical vegetarian for seven years and holds the firm belief that animals are not resources born into this world for human consumption or entertainment.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

What scientific evidence, sound reasoning or common sense explanation can provide a foundation for expanding unbridled economic globalization even one more day, for increasing unrestrained per capita consumption beyond its present conspicuous level for one more week, and for condoning the projected addition of 70 to 80 million members of the human community in this year alone?

... In the late 1800s, millions of passenger pigeons were caught commercially in nets for human consumption each year.

According to the United Nations Environment Program, around one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year is either lost or wasted.

«Thirty to 50 percent of food produced globally for human consumption is wasted every year.

The impact of the full program (prenatal and infancy home visitation) on children's use of alcohol and number of sexual partners is important because recent evidence indicates that alcohol use prior to age 15 years multiplies the risk of alcoholism in adulthood26 and multiple partners increase the risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus infection.27, 28 The effect of the program on alcohol use is consistent with greater alcohol consumption observed among adult rhesus monkeys who experienced aberrant rearing.29 These findings must be tempered, however, with an acknowledgment of their limitations.