feedlot

1 Twelve years old and absent-mindedly doing his chores, Mark noticed the cattle feedlot he was standing in was about the size of a regulation tennis court.

2 Virginia ranchers traditionally have raised cattle for giant corporate feedlots and processors, receiving a fraction of what they could earn by selling directly to chefs and retail shops.

3 New guidelines calling for a wider buffer between fields and feedlots may help, but won't entirely solve the problem, she said.

4 I’d been on the feedlot at Poky only a few months earlier, yet I had trouble connecting that place to my cheeseburger.

5 But Naylor’s farm is one link in a chain that includes fossil fuels, artificial fertilizer, pesticides, heavy machinery, feedlots, antibiotics, and processing plants.

6 This is a huge feedlot outside Havana.

这是哈瓦那效外的一个大饲育场。

7 Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots.

8 Before being put on this strange diet, new arrivals to the feedlot are treated to a few days of fresh long-stemmed hay.

9 Feedlot and other industrial farming systems that provide the majority of supermarket meat rely on heavy antibiotic use to speed the animals' growth and prevent disease in their filthy conditions.

大部分为超市提供肉类的饲养场和其它工业农业系统，一般都依赖于大量的抗生素，以加快动物的生长速度及预防动物因肮脏的环境而致病。

10 The animals are available for adoption, but most go to long-term storage on feedlots and in pastures.

11 It’s not as if conventional ground beef from feedlot cows tastes that great either when you really pay attention.

12 The feedlots are also breeding grounds for new and deadly bacteria.

13 But even a feedlot cow is a much less efficient meat producer than an industrial pig or chicken.

但是即使是集中饲养的牛也没有工业化生产的猪和鸡效率高。

14 “You put animals in a feedlot and you create a pollution problem,” Ms. Carman said.

15 Its broad, international coverage includes feedlot systems, transport, subsistence farming systems and the contribution of cattle production systems to land, air and water pollution.

其广泛的国际范围包括饲养场系统，运输，生活耕作制度和牛的生产系统对土地，空气和水的污染。

16 People tend to think of factory farms and feedlots when they hear about meat and sustainability.

17 The feedlot appeared suddenly, but the stench of the place had been rising for more than a mile.

18 It’s not realistic, or desirable, to imagine swapping out all the feedlot beef for grass-fed beef.

19 Although the Panhandle has more than 85% of the state’s herd, most are in feedlots and dairies that were not damaged.

20 Basically, almost all of the cattle in the feedlot are sick.

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