How to Use farmed in a Sentence
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How to cook sockeye salmon Wild salmon can dry out faster than the fat-marbled farmed stuff.
— Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023 -
But gene editing may not be a fix-all for farmed catfish.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The hornet is adding more to the struggle that both wild and farmed bees are already dealing with.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 July 2022 -
Does the flavor differ between wild duck and farmed duck?
— Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022 -
In late 2022, mammal-to-mammal spread occurred in Spain in farmed minks.
— Emma Worden-Sapper, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2023 -
In China, both row crops and farmed animals have been killed by heat waves.
— WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Canada has reported farmed mink outbreaks and millions of mink have been killed across Europe to control the virus’s spread.
— Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2021 -
This allows the gene pools of wild and farmed fungi to mix, and as a result, the lower ants have less of an influence over the genetics and evolution of their crops.
— Matthew Bian, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022 -
Better Origin’s larvae are fed alive to farmed chickens.
— WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Farmed vegetables still need to be farmed, which means tractors and trucks burning fossil fuels.
— Joe Brown, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022 -
In some cases, the fish are genetically modified, which then causes issues if the holding pens are breached, and farmed fish end up in the wild.
— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023 -
Last month, dozens of dog farmers and breeders protested the bill outside the presidential office in Seoul with many bringing their farmed dogs in cages, according to Reuters.
— Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024 -
It is now known (but initially rejected by Chinese authorities) that wild and farmed animals were sold in this area of the market.
— Dominic Dwyer, Fortune Well, 23 Mar. 2023 -
His hometown, South Holland, Ill., consisted largely of descendants of Dutch immigrants who still spoke the language and farmed onion seedlings.
— Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024 -
How is fish-meal production, catching fish to be ground up into fish meal to feed farmed fish, harming biodiversity?
— Eben Shapiro, Time, 26 Sep. 2021 -
And in 2022, a farmer in Yibin, in southwestern Sichuan province, reported that six of his farmed crocodiles went missing, prompting the city to issue a warning to swimmers.
— Lyric Li, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023 -
Made from baby alpaca wool that is sustainably farmed in New York and then crafted by artisans in South America, the feather-weight wrap with an eyelash fringe can be used as a shawl, scarf, or lap-warmer.
— Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023 -
Lutz said the research is promising in potentially reducing the waste generated by fish farms, which has been a goal of gene editing in farmed animals.
— al, 5 Feb. 2023 -
Originally crossbred to help farmed pigs grow larger and tolerate the cold temperatures of Canada, a drop in the market about two decades ago led some farmers to let their hybrid pigs run free.
— Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023 -
However, Cygnus Ocean does not have a permit for commercial export of their farmed fish, according to the environmental groups.
— CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Media reports suggest many farmed animals including pigs, rabbits and fish have died due to the scorching conditions.
— Chris Lau, CNN, 23 June 2023 -
The better question is how something so small, and thus so easily granted, could ever have been withheld in the first place, from farmed animals so utterly dependent on our goodwill and our sense of right and wrong.
— Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022 -
Science tells us that the methods used to kill farmed insects—including baking, boiling and microwaving—have the potential to cause intense suffering.
— Lars Chittka, Scientific American, 14 June 2023 -
In other words, farmed insects are being used to turbocharge, not replace, the conventional livestock production.
— Lars Chittka, Scientific American, 14 June 2023 -
Since farmed bluefin tuna is typically fed pellets and sardines, the taste is different from wild tuna with a varied diet, which often results in more complex flavors.
— Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023 -
The pickleball collection features more than 40 designs, with charms that adorn necklaces, bracelets and earrings all made from 18k gold, sterling silver, quality crystals and non-farmed diamonds.
— Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022 -
Like a scene from Piranha, the foreign fish — industrially farmed salmon that companies bred in open-net pens — escaped enclosures in Iceland’s western fjords and entered the country’s rivers at various points in the past few months.
— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023 -
Some research has found that producing cultured meat emits fewer greenhouse gases than farmed meat, but other studies contradicted this.
— Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Barnacle, operating in Alaska, is another stateside brand to consider that offers both farmed and wild kelp products.
— Samantha Lande, Good Housekeeping, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Many vegetarians and vegans believe that animals—at least farmed land and aquatic animals—are too.
— WIRED, 27 June 2023
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