Sentence examples for tonnes of beef from inspiring English sources
Three-quarters of the total comes from cattle, for 59m tonnes of beef a year.
Cattle account for 77% of the greenhouse gases produced by livestock for 59m tonnes of beef each year.
And much more chicken is traded across borders: some 13.3m tonnes a year compared with 8.6m tonnes of beef and 7.2m tonnes of pork, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
America wants to know exactly how many tonnes of beef, pork, poultry, and so on it can expect to sell in the EU as a result of a deal.Globalisation's biggest beneficiaries have been so slow to take on the pitchfork protectionists partly because they are tired.
More than 11,000 people shelled out $125 to be there, and tickets were changing hands on eBay for ten times that amount on the morning of the bash.This being Texas, at least for one night, everything was bigger and better than anywhere else: 60,000 jumbo shrimps were readied, along with 7,000lb (3.2 tonnes) of beef brisket and 900 cases of spirits.
Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.Indeed, from the heady heights of Davos, this trade round's preoccupation with farming the oldest of old-economy businesses looks absurd.
A single cell culture should in principle yield 20,000 tonnes of "cultured beef".
In 2013 Kazakh ranchers exported 300 tonnes of prime beef to Russia.
A single sample of stem cells could, he reckons, yield 20,000 tonnes of "cultured beef".
A single sample of stem cells could produce 20,000 tonnes of "cultured beef", enough to make 175m quarter-pounders that would otherwise require 440,000 cattle to be slaughtered.
Put simply, in terms of the amount of greenhouse warming potential generated per tonne of meat produced, pig meat produces about 4 tonnes as compared to nearly 15 tonnes for beef and nearly 16 tonnes for sheep (Genesis Faraday Partnership 2008 based on analysis by Cranfield University).
