a person or thing thatconsumes. Economics.a person or organization that uses a commodity or service. Ecology.an organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. Discover More Other Words From con·sum er·ship noun
2.Ecologyan organism, esp an animal, within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 [kən′süm·ər] (ecology) A nutritional grouping in the food chain of an ecosystem, composed of heterotrophic organis...
1.a person or thing that consumes. 2.a person or organization that purchases or uses a commodity or service. 3.Ecol.an organism, usu. an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. [1400–50] con•sum′er•ship`,n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010...
The current research focuses on investigating the prosocial role of anger that is related to compensating the harmed parties. If anger drives prosocial behaviors by third parties who observe moral wrongs, they likely advance the interests of the harmed parties (Van Doorn et al.,2014). This might...
LLC (Alexandre)—“These are some happy grass grazed cows,”7“I am one happy cow,”8and “Life on our pastures is a happy one!”9But how can consumers know that these marketing labels and statements fairly represent the actual conditions on the farm, and aren’t simply more humanewashin...
their cost is high. This is partly attributable to the fact that in US there is a ban on chicken imports from other parts of the world due to the Avian Flu Fever. Moreover, the black coloration gene is recessive and this leads to high incidence of color leakage. For this, perfectly bl...
Data are given on the distribution and abundance of marine mammals in the Okhotsk Sea at the beginning of the 20th century and at present as well as estimates of their total biomass and the annual amount of food consumed. The annual food requirements of whales and seals ...
Hens had been fed on the test feeds 16 wk prior to consumers’ acceptability testing. 2 Means ± standard error. a,b Main effect means within the row or column differ (P≤ 0.05); n = 120. Off flavors originating from these additional foodstuffs were apparently more noticeable in the hard...
(Honek et al.2007; Koprdova et al.2008; Martinkova et al.2006; Saska et al.2008) that the carabidPseudoophonus rufipes(De Geer, 1774) feeds on various seed species (Sint et al.2018; Wallinger et al.2015).Pseudoophonus rufipesis also known to consume eggs and small juveniles of ...
Since today is Black Friday, it is no surprise that in these times of concern for the climate and the environment, people come with their takes on this big sales promotion day. I found two interesting articles about the topic. One is from The Netherlands and the other from France. I fin...