At the end of the experimental period the animals were transported 196 km, in a livestock trailer, for slaughter at a commercial slaughterhouse (Frigorífico Naturafrig, Rochedo-MS, Brazil). It is submitted to the federal inspection system (FIS) according to humanitarian procedures required by the...
At the beginning of the 19th century, before the mass migration of humans across the North American continent, the Great Plains were the domain of the buffalo — an estimated 60 million of them. They were at the center of Native American culture, literally life on the hoof. Indigenous people...
Did Ukraine forces just attempt to kick off their much anticipated major counteroffensive,only to have it put down immediately after it began? That's what the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD)suggested early Mondayin announcing that Ukraine began a "large-scale offensive" in mounting attacks along f...
This rapid improvement is in stark contrast to the industrial livestock production model, which has all but reached its limits in terms of scale, reach, and efficiency. As the most inefficient and economically vulnerable part of this system, cow products will be the first to feel the full forc...
With two nuclear powers, one with a population of 1.2 billion while the other has over 200 million people facing off, how many other countries need to be involved to turn any conflict into the biggest mass slaughter in history? Masood Khan, Pakistan’s former envoy to the United Nat...
The disposal of kitchen waste and the leftovers of slaughters— it’s a nomadic herding community — brought feral mastiffs and wild bears.问题是镇上的人把这个厕所当垃圾场用了。这里是游牧群落,厨余垃圾、屠宰残余会引来凶猛的敖和野熊。Children weren’t allowed to use the facilities after sundown...
They also sell pesticides and fertilizer, operate most of America’s grain elevators, ship most of the corn exported to other countries, feed corn to livestock and then slaughter the corn-fed animals. This represents a high degree of market concentration in many links of the supply chain. As...
Accurately, post-weaning daily weight gain has been estimated from 0.45 to 1.73 g/day (18 to 68 g) per generation in rabbit [2,8,11,12,15,16,17,18]. Body weight at slaughter time ranged in heritability from 0.12 to 0.67 as a consequence of environmental variability, the improvement of...