SWINE RAISING Raising hogs for breeding or show is probably one of the most common 4-H livestock projects. It doesn’t require a large amount of money or expensive buildings and equipment and it can be completed in about four months. Eight major breeds of hogs are commonly used for breeding in the United States. In general‚ the five dark breeds--Berkshire‚ Duroc‚ Hampshire‚ Poland China‚ and Spot are known and used for their siring ability and potential to pass along their durability‚ leanness
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1. On the diagram below‚ what percentage of energy (from the choices in blue on the left) is transferred from a producer to a: (A) secondary consumer‚ (B) tertiary consumer‚ (C) quaternary consumer? The producer takes 100% from the sun then gives 10% to the primary consumer then 1% to the secondary consumer then .1% to the tertiary consumer and then .01% to the quaternary consumer. 2. Look at the quote from Rachel Carson on the first page. What do you think the quote means? Use some of the terms
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Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night We‚ as humans‚ have developed such a bizarre and uncomfortable relationship with non-human animals. In her short essay‚ Makenna Goodman describes how for dinner she had her guests come over and one had to kill a chicken for their meal. Goodman also discusses the efforts made by farmers to supply their families with farm-fresh food that has been prepared in an ethical way. Goodman introduces her article by sharing with us
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Hogs Some of the best reasons to own a hog is that you can make money from them and they are fun. “They are a major source of income for many of the world’s farmers.”(Jacobs 284). If you can have an animal that is fun to own as well as profitable‚ then why not get one today. There are many ways to make money from a hog. First you can get more and raise them to be sold‚ second you can sell them for butchering‚ and third you can show them at fairs to make money. The way hags are sold they are put
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In class‚ we watch a documentation called food Inc‚ the movie was about what we are eating and how they are being produced. In the documentation‚ has showed us many things about different company and they did not want to be interviewed. The documentation showed a woman who had a little boy that died from a meat and two weeks later it had a recall‚ her focus was to show us what could possible happens‚ and how long will it take before they take the food out the market. Due to the wrongs that are being
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Marine Animal – Sakick Tropical Animal – Uguanda Part B The Sakick The Sakick is a relatively large omnivorous sea creature that dwells in coral reefs and preys upon multiple fish species as well being able to eat ocean vegetation as well. Sakick’s natural habitat is full of a variety of larger species but because of the Sakick’s natural defence capabilities it is prey to nearly no other creatures besides humans‚ however the hunting of Sakick’s is relatively light as they do not possess many
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Animal Farm Chapter IX Pan-Africanism and colonialism In this chapter Boxer is getting weaker due to his injury‚ but decides keep building the windmill. It was agreed that horses could only retire at the age of twelve and Boxer approaching the age. Rations are reduced again‚ and the animals are not allowed lanterns in their stalls anymore in order to save oil‚ except for the pigs and dogs. Also‚ 31 piglets are born (Napoleon’s). He decides to build the schoolhouse to educate them ( since
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Is this ethic to eats meat‚ how can we decide? If we follow the normative ethics and the golden rule completely tells us: we should do to others what we would want others to do to us‚ in other word‚ what we should do to others what we would want others to do to us. Ok lets back to my question‚ Since I do not want any one going to kill me‚ so I should not kill any one. Since we are the top of food chain‚ we are murderers‚ because we eat meat everyday and even if we have not killed the animals
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Modern slaughterhouses are designed to be very clean and efficient. These institutions are designed to end the lives of thousands of animals everyday. There are over 1100 slaughterhouses in operation all over North America. However these facilities have very similar ways to execute the animal. Chickens‚ ducks and turkeys are hung upside down by their feet. An automated slicer then proceeds to cut through the neck‚ essentially cutting off air supply to the brain. The carcasses are then dumped in a
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As I began reading Chapter 8‚ I thought that animals are going to be the victims of this chapter. However‚ as I went over each page‚ it turned out that out of all living creatures entering the slaughterhouse‚ humans are treated in the most barbaric and inhuman way. I decided to write about this chapter because it brings up the issue of how privileged people in America use their power and literally turn people without those privileges into slaves. Another reason is the fact that I honestly wasn’t
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