Definitions for livestock
ˈlaɪvˌstɒklive·stock

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1. livestock, stock, farm animalnoun

   any animals kept for use or profit

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1. livestocknoun

   Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

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1. Livestock

   Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals who are raised for consumption, and sometimes used to refer solely to farmed ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. Horses are considered livestock in the United States. The USDA classifies pork, veal, beef, and lamb (mutton) as livestock, and all livestock as red meat. Poultry and fish are not included in the category. The latter is likely due to the fact that fish products are not governed by the USDA, but by the FDA. The breeding, maintenance, slaughter and general subjugation of livestock, called animal husbandry, is a part of modern agriculture and has been practiced in many cultures since humanity's transition to farming from hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Animal husbandry practices have varied widely across cultures and time periods. It continues to play a major economic and cultural role in numerous communities. Livestock farming practices have largely shifted to intensive animal farming. Intensive animal farming increases the yield of the various commercial outputs, but also negatively impacts animal welfare, the environment, and public health. In particular, beef, dairy and sheep are an outsized source of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

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1. livestock

   Livestock refers to domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber, or labor. This can include animals like cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, horses, ducks, and bees. The raising of livestock is part of the practice of animal husbandry.

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1. Livestock

   Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor. This article does not discuss poultry or farmed fish, although these, especially poultry, are commonly included within the meaning of "livestock". Livestock are generally raised for profit. Raising animals is a component of modern agriculture. It has been practiced in many cultures since the transition to farming from hunter-gather lifestyles.

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How to pronounce livestock?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of livestock in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of livestock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of livestock in a Sentence

1. Akram Hussain:

   When the livestock comes down for the winter what are we going to feed them? If our livestock goes, our culture goes.

2. Lewis Thomas:

   Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

3. The CCF:

   Predators are not wanton livestock catching animals, they don't want to come and eat our livestock. What we as humans do is put our livestock in inappropriate locations through lack of knowledge.

4. Amesh Adalja:

   A lot of that material from the birth or the spontaneous abortion or miscarriage of the livestock can transmit it. The main way that people get it is because they inhale material from the birthing of a livestock animal, that’s why you have to take certain precautions when you are working with a cow in the birthing process to make sure that you don’t inhale the material from the birth that may contain the Q fever bacteria.

5. Bob Ward:

   The methane created by livestock is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide... so we will have to reduce meat consumption, but it's unlikely that we will reduce livestock to zero.

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