Sentence examples for intensive livestock from inspiring English sources

Intensive livestock farming is more efficient and environmentally friendlier.

This drove down the price of these produces and created the conditions for intensive livestock production.

Manure from intensive livestock rearing which makes its way into soil and water is just as damaging.

"We are not, as if often claimed, on a relentless and unstoppable drive to have bigger and more intensive livestock systems".

"The badger is being used as a scapegoat for failures in the modern intensive livestock industry that have led to a significant increase in bovine TB".

After half a century or more of campaigning, there have been improvements, especially in Europe, but globally, the model of intensive livestock production continues to grow.

The organisation claimed EU support for intensive livestock farming was worth £700m while the new subsidies for uplands farmers were worth only £25m.

In the late 20th century, the southwestern counties saw a rapid growth of intensive livestock farming, especially the raising of hogs.

Ministers claimed the result as a success but a leading scientist said there was "no basis" for suggesting the cull was effective, while wildlife charities said badgers were being used as a scapegoat for failures in the intensive livestock industry.

Increasing concern has been expressed about the presence of mercury in some northern lakes and rivers, as well as about the effects of intensive livestock farming on the groundwater of southwestern Ontario and on the lower Great Lakes.

A standard sequence begins with wheat and sheep farming on the drier margins and moves on to more specialized wheat production and intensive livestock enterprises, dairy farming, and market gardening.