Sentence examples for which livestock from inspiring English sources

Tobacco is grown in the higher areas, in which livestock raising is also important.

When people talk about industrial farming, they usually refer to the often deplorable conditions in which livestock is raised these days, usually confined in close quarters, often indoors.

Festival organisers made the decision as part of a commitment to reduce the event's environmental impact, citing research showing the extent to which livestock farming contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions.

Chicken and pork are likely to be the meats that cause less environmental damage in relative terms, though standards of welfare and the circumstances in which livestock are raised can make a big difference.

Yet, husbanded by humans, these three species have played a major role in hastening the demise of all the rest, including species exquisitely adapted to ecosystems in which livestock can survive only through human intervention.

During the earliest period of this transition, hoes or digging sticks were used to break the ground where necessary, and planting was probably accomplished by "treading in," a process in which livestock are made to plant seeds by walking over an area where they have been broadcast.

Furthermore, the multiple livelihood practices of Soqotrans, and thus their lack of livelihood specialization, problematize the standard definition of who are pastoralists: 'populations for which livestock-related activities are the sources of more than half of total household income' (Swift and Toulmin [1992]).

Standstill is a legally required period following a movement of livestock onto a farm during which no livestock may be moved from that farm to other farms (but livestock can be moved to slaughter).

Louping ill virus, for example, which kills livestock and wildlife in Britain, is passed by sheep tick bites.

Farmers are currently allowed under the Hunting Act of 2004 to use two dogs to flush out foxes which threaten livestock.

It is, for instance, less vulnerable to animal-borne diseases which decimate livestock and can, as in the case of bird-flu, jump to humans.