Quotes About Livestock

Indian films never show cows. When you go to India, the most noticeable thing is the cows. Everywhere you look, there's cows walking around! Just by introducing the idea of animals - livestock walking around - suddenly makes it more real.

We're gonna raise some big bucks and breed 'em and that sorta thing. Pretty excited about that.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

housed everything from livestock to the buttery, so that the entire castle was completely

The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

Count among Washington's gifts to his future nation his revelation that cows, rather than horses or sheep, provide the most potent dung.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

People who have kept all types of poultry generally agree that ducks are the easiest domestic birds to raise.

When acquiring ducks, keep in mind that the strain is at least as important as the breed.

Of all domestic fowl, in many circumstances the young of ducks are the easiest to raise.

the breath of 7 billion people, our pets and our livestock puts into the already overburdened atmosphere 7 billion tons of CO2 a year.

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

The second voyage, carrying soldiers from different parts of Spain and teeming cargo of livestock, was a Noah's ark of pestilence.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.

I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.