Now,the nonprofit Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines is trying to expand production and lower the cost.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

They are engaged in raising livestock, which in Greece is more likely to be sheep and goats than cattle, but also breeding horses, which is very important for the aristocracy for carrying on warfare.

他们擅长豢养牲畜,在当地似乎养绵羊和山羊比牛要来的容易,但是他们同样养马,这对于贵族阶层发动战争很重要

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Ten years ago,in Washington State, fifteen farmers raising sheep and other livestock formed a cooperative.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

These large monkeys raid crops and they can kill sheep and other livestock.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Rusty Lee and his family raise vegetables and livestock on his farm in Truxton,Missouri, about 100 kilometers west of St.Louis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

In nearly all the major relationship livestock-producing countries in the world, farmers add small amounts of antibiotics to the animals' feed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Lynn Henning samples the waters for pollution from the large livestock farms near her home in rural Michigan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The FDA recently issued new guidance to the livestock industry recommending they stop using antibiotics as growth promoters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The raw material for the digester comes from livestock waste that might otherwise end up in a smelly manure lagoon on the farm.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

But heavy rainfall could also trigger massive flooding, lost livestock, and displacement, bringing more misery to millions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Livestock help improve human nutrition, provide income and serve as a safety net for many poor farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Ghanem says that as the demand for livestock products continues to grow, governments need to consider these competing objectives and find the right balance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

She has donated the $150,000 prize to nonprofit organizations so others can keep a close eye on pollution from livestock waste in their communities.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The higher intake of livestock products, the report says, is the result of rising population, urbanization and increasing affluence in many parts of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The livestock industry argues that it's a long way from farm to fork, and there's no evidence that feeding antibiotics to healthy animals is harming people.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

But FAO Assistant Director General Hafez Ghanem cautions that government regulators need to weigh the full spectrum of economic, environmental,social and health issues associated with livestock production.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

But all that is left of his livestock now are 25 goats and when they are gone, Ahmed says he does not know what he will do.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Raising livestock and clearing land for farms and ranches are significant greenhouse-gas emitters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

She has been forced to sell her livestock to pay for food.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

But Nicholas Minot at the International Food Policy Research Institute notes that these countries have relatively well-established regulatory systems to oversee livestock health, meat processing and food safety.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

We lost our livestock and everything. We don't have anything to sell.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

Furthermore,livestock diseases, as well as food-borne and human diseases,are also mounting.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"For example." "if you're only looking at the economic aspects of livestock production, that might lead to producing in ways that are harmful to the environment or harmful to health.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Schlundt says it remains common in other major livestock-producing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"If they lose their livestock, they move to villages,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Bigger livestock herds are putting greater pressure on land resources and disrupting some ecosystems and the animals generate significant amounts of water and air pollution, including methane, a climate-changing greenhouse gas.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

But others say more regulation would be a mistake. The livestock industry and the nation's leading veterinarians' group says the antibiotics are helping to prevent animal disease, which ultimately makes the food supply safer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The FAO report says developing countries will need to strengthen disease control regulations, as well as improve environmental controls and minimize the dislocation of small farmers as the livestock industry continuesto grow and concentrate into large-scale enterprises.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22