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Synopsis: 2.0.. agro: Animal breeding:


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For two years Kinze and Jaybridge tested the system for detecting obstacles such as fence posts, stand pipes, farm animals and other vehicles.


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roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U s. are fed to farm animals


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If their results can be replicated in other animals it could provide a way for virtually unlimited supplies of genetically superior farm animals or other animals important to research.


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If you care about farm animals in Iowa there is unfortunately no shortage of high-profile high-impact matters that would benefit from citizen activism there.


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These facilities concentrate as many as hundreds of thousands of farm animals along with their waste frequently in welfare-depriving cages crates and pens.

The majority of pregnant sows egg-laying hens and other farm animals are housed in barren crowded cages and crates barely larger than their bodies.


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For the animal welfare movement to put a fine point on its impact King's measure could easily repeal all the state laws against shark finning puppy mills extreme confinement of farm animals and the slaughter and sale of meat from horses dogs


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So far Mitalipov and his colleagues have not been able to grow a cloned monkey fetus to term suggesting that primate reproduction may be even more complex than what is known from Dolly the sheep and other farm animals.


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Bacteria commonly found in the digestive tracts of farm animals including campylobacter and E coli O157 can easily find their way into milk as it is pumped


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Mendl and his colleagues knew that farm animals frequently go through painful experiences as a matter of course including castration and tail-docking or the practice of removing the tail.

which can also signal pain in farm animals. Generational effects? The scientists found that ewes with an early traumatic experience of tail-docking

Thus he steered clear of recommending pain pills for farm animals just yet. We need to do these other studies to say


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An American Farm Bureau poll found 95 percent of consumers say they want farm animals to be treated well


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and firmly believe that robust farm animal health and welfare standards can have both a direct and an indirect impact on food quality and safety.

The examples cited above are just part of a mounting pile of evidence that the way humans abuse farm animals as standard practice today must change.


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and other farm animals are plentiful according to a new study. To reconstruct leopard diets scientists had to take a close look at leopard poop.


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According to the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations global animal agriculture produces vast amounts of crops to feed billions of farm animals long before they are consumed themselves.

The raising and slaughtering of farm animals is just one component. Raising animals for food also includes feed-crop production

And former George w bush and Sarah Palin speechwriter Matthew Scully is vegan writing in his book Dominion regarding farm animal production


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Your Chicken Might (Op-Ed) Paul Shapiro is the vice president of farm animal protection at The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.

We need to recognize that mistreating farm animals is bad for them and for us. If this prompts more Americans to eat less meat and more plant-based meals good.


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#After the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm animal Production a panel including farmers veterinarians and former Agriculture secretary Dan Glickman studied the issue it recommended the phase out within 10 years of all intensive confinement systems that restrict natural movement


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This is the future of animal breeding, says Juergen Richt, a veterinary surgeon at Kansas State university in Manhattan.


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who has called for more funding for agriculture research, particularly for farm animals. It's good to see that they have new people,


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Antibiotic ban The US Food and Drug Administration is restricting some uses of a major class of antibiotic in farm animals,


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On 4 Â January, the agency said that it would prohibit certain uses of cephalosporins in farm animals including cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys,

the evidence linking antibiotic use in farm animals with resistance in humans is still controversial (A e. Mather et al.


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not only for the farm animals, but also for people in third-world countries. Liver fluke could also explain epidemiological mysteries,


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Animals engineered with pinpoint accuracytwo genetically engineered farm animals reported today illustrate how far from Frankenstein s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come.

says Heiner Niemann, a bioengineer at the Institute of Farm animal Genetics in Neustadt, Germany. The excitement surrounding these technological advances is bittersweet, however.


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Mark Walton, chief marketing officer at Recombinetics, an animal-biotechnology company in St paul, Minnesota, says that his company will focus initially on medical applications   using modified farm animals as disease models

where dozens of  GM farm animals are in development.""I think we will end up eating genetically modified animals of a variety of species,


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Many researchers think that widespread use of antibiotics to encourage growth in farm animals fuels the proliferation of MRSA and other drug-resistant bacteria.


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Pig cow sheep rooster duck horse--these are farm animals which in America's collective agrarian past were members of the household.


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Scientists have warned long that the constant use of antibiotics in farm animals is a threat to human health

Multiply this by millions of farm animals and years of antibiotic use and you eventually breed large populations of superbugs.

The National Resources Defense Council has sued the FDA over the use of antibiotics in farm animals.

but unless these veterinarians believe these uses are creating a public health problem they have no incentive to do thatã¢Â# says Steven Roach a program director for public health at the Food Animal Concerns Trust a farm animal welfare


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Factory farm animals like cows pigs and chickens consume massive amounts of grain water and land and require the deforestation of huge swathes of the planet.


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Its simple animal breeding anyone can do. We should have domesticated versions of all wild animals by now.


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and easily infect farm animals such as cows sheep pigs and chickens. Humans can be infected by eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables.


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and the impacts of farm animals on environments vary dramatically depending on the animal the type of food it provides the kind of feed it consumes

what cows sheep pigs poultry and other farm animals are eating in different parts of the world;


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Exposure to farm animals especially at a young age is thought to protect against developing allergies. The findings add to evidence that westernized lifestyles increase the risk of allergic diseases.


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Implications for Cheetah Conservation researchers from the University's School of Anthropology and Conservation studied the effect guarding dogs have on the protection of farm animals across South africa.


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and farm animals moved from eating grass to grain. Since omega-3s are present in grass and algae much of today's grain-fed cattle contain less of these essential fatty acids.


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#Iberian lynx attacks on farm animals are on the risescientists working on the LIFE IBERLINCE project have spent six years studying the hunting behaviour of the Iberian Lynx lynx pardinus) registering a total of 40 attacks with 716 farm animals killed.

We have counted a total of 40 attacks on farm animals involving 716 kills in the area of Andã jar-Cardeã a one of the hubs--along with Doã ana--in


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#Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanitythe accelerating disappearance of Earth's species of both wild

Even barnyard diversity is in declinesome scientists have termed this the sixth great extinction episode in Earth's history according to Dr. Zakri noting that the loss of biodiversity is happening faster and everywhere even among farm animals.


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Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the effect of antimicrobial peptides in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) and the Institute for Reproduction of Farm animals


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In order to make this possible Rianne van Binsbergen Phd researcher at the Animal breeding and Genomics Centre of Wageningen UR investigated


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Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) share their habitat with a number of other wild animals as well as with farm animals.

This puts farm animals as well as wildlife population at risk for interspecies transmission of infections. Close cooperation with hunters and foresters is essential to ensure that any outbreaks are detected as soon as possible.


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Research has shown already that bacteria are transferred from farm animals to their human caretakers. Gene transfer enables genes to jump between microorganisms that are related not


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Many of our ideas about domestication are derived from modern experience with animal breeding. Anyone familiar with the huge variety of dog breeds all of which belong to the same subspecies of the gray wolf has some appreciation of the power of selective breeding to alter appearance and behavior.


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whose ideas in turn were influenced strongly by British animal breeding practices during the 19th century a period when landowners vigorously pursued systematic livestock improvement.

It's probably fortunate the Darwin had clear examples of animal breeding to consider as he thought about evolution.


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Professor Mark Eisler Chair in Global Farm animal Health in the School of Veterinary Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said:


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This could make it more difficult for a farm animal to be trained or to do something as simple as walk down a path and not be overwhelmed by a bright light or a new noise.


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In addition to the obvious benefit of helping us understand the human immune system the research may benefit the large-scale raising of cattle an important segment of the U s. economy as new vaccines can be developed to protect farm animals from common cattle diseases.


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Ruedi Fries Chair of Animal breeding at TUM. With artificial insemination male breeding animals can produce more than one hundred thousand offspring.


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This form of antibiotic abuse has gotten so widespread that healthy farm animals now receive around 70 percent of all antibiotics administered to farm animals.


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There is certainly an animalic component, reminiscent of farm animals, or even a faecal note, perhaps like that of a well rotted manure heap, writes an online ambergris guide.


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Won't some people take issue with farm animals trampling all over their dearly departed? Such would be expected, but perhaps it just gives this New england town more of a city on the hill feel.


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Paris cultural center welcomes lawn-mowing sheepparis The sounds of gasoline-powered lawn mowers could soon be replaced entirely by the gentle bleating of hungry farm animals in The french capital.


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