Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Domestic animals, such as cattle or horses, raised for home use or for profit, especially on a farm.
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- noun
Farm animals ; animalsdomesticated forcultivation .
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- noun any animals kept for use or profit
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Examples
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A couple inaccuracies: the interviewer uses "livestock" interchangeably with "farm animals" in the second sentence, which makes her opening claim impossible to understand (the word livestock does not encompass poultry; and poultry account for more than 90 percent of farmed animals raised in the USA.)
Vegan.com Blog erikmarcus 2010
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Raising livestock is tougher than ever on the fringes of one of the nation's fastest-growing edge cities, not to mention the impact of the animal rights movement and online sales.
Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010
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The FDA is discussing restricting routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed to slow the rise of deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Carla Wise: The Latest Threat to Industrial Agriculture: The Local Foods Movement? Carla Wise 2010
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The FDA is discussing restricting routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed to slow the rise of deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Carla Wise: The Latest Threat to Industrial Agriculture: The Local Foods Movement? Carla Wise 2010
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The FDA is discussing restricting routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed to slow the rise of deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Carla Wise: The Latest Threat to Industrial Agriculture: The Local Foods Movement? Carla Wise 2010
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Raising livestock is tougher than ever on the fringes of one of the nation's fastest-growing edge cities, not to mention the impact of the animal rights movement and online sales.
Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010
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Q: The term for the care and killing of livestock is animal husbandry,,
A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig 2010
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Watching intently as eggs are collected, cows receive their cowbells, and livestock is moved from one pasture to another, the dogs never tire of monitoring the local spectacle.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
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Raising livestock is tougher than ever on the fringes of one of the nation's fastest-growing edge cities, not to mention the impact of the animal rights movement and online sales.
Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010
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Watching intently as eggs are collected, cows receive their cowbells, and livestock is moved from one pasture to another, the dogs never tire of monitoring the local spectacle.
George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010
chained_bear commented on the word livestock
"Winter-feeding and selective breeding had continued to improve livestock so that by the close of the century animals had doubled in size since the Middle Ages. And there was plenty of it. Butchers' meat was around thruppence a pound at mid-century -- half the price of butter -- and the 80,000 cattle that were driven to market in London in 1750 was set to increase to nearer a hundred thousand by 1800. Unsurprisingly there were tourists who wrote that they did not 'believe that any Englishman who is his own master has ever eaten a dinner without meat'."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 216
January 17, 2017