Quotes About Livestock

CAFOs house them as tightly as possible where they never see grass or sunlight. If you can envision one thousand chickens in your bathroom, in cages stacked to the ceiling, you're honestly getting the picture. (Actually a six-foot by eight room could house 1,152).

Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them.

The cows were all running around their pen in manic terror.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

I don't own big hats, but I have a lot of cattle.

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.

The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.

In addition to the stored foods, livestock—chickens and pigs and probably a few goats and geese—were penned on Sea Venture's deck, both to provide fresh meat during the voyage and to help stock Jamestown's farms.

In the fighting that we do, one time we fight over the wheat and all the other grains, another time over the livestock, and at other times over the vineyards. And so, on four occasions we fight over all the fruits of the earth and for those things won by the benandanti that year there is abundance.' Thus, at the core of the nocturnal gatherings of the benandanti we see a fertility rite emerging that is precisely patterned on the principal events of the agricultural year.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

When did a sheep last die of old age? Sheep do not own themselves, do not own their lives. They exist to be used, every last ounce of them, their flesh to be eaten, their bones to be crushed and fed to poultry. Nothing escapes, except perhaps the gall bladder, which no one will eat. Descartes should have thought of that. The soul, suspended in the dark, bitter gall, hiding.

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.