Quotes About Livestock

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

I don't spend my time on farms. I don't like the smell, to be honest.

One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.

Agnes could read the history of this place, this hilltop. The first settlers here must have made a start clearing fields for their crops or livestock, even put up these grand houses. Then, after no tile at all, they had evidently given up and wondered off to do – well, whatever it was most people did around here to make a living these days. And now here was the forest already taking back the land, or trying to.

About 75 percent of the cattle in the United States were routinely fed livestock wastes—the rendered remains of dead sheep and dead cattle—until August of 1997. They were also fed millions of dead cats and dead dogs every year, purchased from animal shelters.

Now I have a sheep and cow, everybody bids me good morrow.

I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house.

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.

I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

In Haryana, there are two things that are most important in a household. We don't care if we have a big house and several cars or not. But for us, in every household, the sons need to be strong, and the animals need to be in good health.

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

They've made it a felon to drive from Florida to Louisiana with any fighting birds, so I've had to get rid of most of my chickens. I only got about a hundred left now, which I just keep for colour and breeding. I love those birds as much as anything.

All those milk-fed, hog-fed, beef-fed early years. All those extra hormones we put in our livestock. We'll be seeing toddlers with tits before long.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.