Sentence examples for age of slaughter. from inspiring English sources
"The average age of slaughter for a standard white is 12 to 15 weeks, half way through their development," Kelly says.
Table 4 summarises the results in terms of country, age of slaughter, weight, feed conversion ratio (FCR = kg feed consumed/net weight gain; the lower the FCR the better), mortality and the EU performance index.
The uniform age of slaughter helps standardize the size of the femoral head.
The animals were followed longitudinally [ 10] and were first tested at the age of four weeks and thereafter at two to five week intervals until the age of slaughter.
We do not believe this is attributable to experimental or data processing issues (see discussion of Fig. 5 d) below); rather, the lower variability shown by the triglyceride content of our beef samples is likely due to the similar diets, gender, geographic origin and age of slaughter of the cattle.
The prohibition has since also been lifted in Korea, though Japan and Korea continue to impose restrictions on the age of slaughtered cattle, which the United States finds onerous and has sought to modify.
Animals were fed the experimental diets from weaning (35 days of age) to slaughter (70 74 days of age), and feed restriction was applied from 35 to 63 days of age.
The birds were euthanized immediately prior to tissue harvest at one of three developmental stages: 18 d embryo (18de; hyperplasia), 1 d post hatch (1d; shift from myoblast-mediated growth to satellite cell modulated growth by hypertrophy), and 16 wk old birds (16wk; approximate age of commercial slaughter).
In addition to the risks associated with crowding, animals of commercial operations may constitute a higher risk for human infection when their relatively young age at time of slaughter does not suffice for developing immunity to common farm pathogens.
A panoramic moral analysis of an age of military-industrial slaughter.
