Sentence examples for converting animals from inspiring English sources

According to the conversion factor used for converting animals into livestock units in Bhutan, an adult goat is equated to 0.10 livestock units (LU) (Dorji 1993).

Both biological and socio-anthropological approaches share the aspect of human mastery on and use of domestic animal as resources: control exerted on movement and breeding, converting animals into property and goods as a food supply, product for industrial use, energy and labor force, and territory and herd defense (Delort 1984).

Bacteria are well-known decomposers of dead animal flesh and are efficient at converting animal tissues to simpler organic compounds.

For proof, see Dynamic Fuels' Geismar, La., plant, which will start commercial operations any day now, converting animal fat into drop-in diesel fuel.

Simple household biodigesters have long been available for converting animal waste into biogas containing methane, but these biogesters are limited to areas with sufficient dung, water, temperature, and financial capital.

The movement to convert animals into accessories for adults has gathered such pace that we don't just neuter them, we customise them – non-moulting fur, the right density of spots – to our individual taste.

The top was designed to recall the head of a Cyberman, and piranha-like teeth were added to suggest that they were converted animals, just as Cybermen were converted humans.

Many of them live in shacks, tents and converted animal pens.

Students come to visit the farm to learn how to build biogas tanks that convert animal manure into energy and solar dryers to preserve fruit and vegetables.

Tanning industries widely used chromium compounds to convert animal skins and hides into leather, mainly chromium sulphate.

Consider factory farming, the most common method used to convert animal bodies into relatively inexpensive food in industrialized societies today.