Sentence examples for feed a practice from inspiring English sources

The disease is thought to be caused by putting animal protein into cow feed, a practice since banned.

In the 1950s, the London physician Ian G Wickes published a multi-part compendium of feeding practices throughout history, including the changing technology that allowed families to dry feed, a practice also often called hand-feeding.

He is kept alive only by twice-daily forced feeding, a practice now deemed to be torture.

Many are careful to protect their pastures and therefore their soil by selling or locking up livestock and feeding – a practice known as drought lotting – in dry times.

These heinous practices feed a rot that lies at the heart of abusive, ineffective and self-defeating police and security services.

The Guantánamo officers cited the experience of a 2005-era hunger strike as critical to informing why they now remove hunger strikers' feeding tubes – a practice doctors testifying for Dhiab called painful, unnecessary and dangerous – and strap them into "five-point restraint" chairs.

Anderson, a longtime animal activist, spoke to the assembly to support a bill that would abolish force feeding ducks, a practice done to fatten up their livers for foie gras.

The government is trying to combat the crisis with steps like encouraging mothers to breast-feed, a practice shown in some studies to reduce obesity later in life.

The mother, whose name has not been reported to protect the boy's privacy, has said she planned to wean her son whenever he asked to stop breast-feeding, a practice supported by La Leche League, a breast-feeding advocacy group.

Detainees said the Guantánamo medical staff also began inserting and removing the long plastic feeding tubes that were threaded through the detainees' nasal passages and into their stomachs at every feeding, a practice that caused sharp pain and frequent bleeding, they said.

Despite expressing a belief that he could be released shortly, Aamer has said he will continue to refuse food and is pushing for the end of force-feeding – a practice at Guantanamo Bay which has been increasingly condemned by the wider medical community.