Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Livestock. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Livestock Quotes And Sayings by 89 Authors including Joel Salatin,Wendell Berry,Matthew Scully,Andrew Lawler,Elisee Reclus for you to enjoy and share.
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
The modern chicken is both a technological triumph and a poster child for all that is sad and nightmarish about our industrial agriculture. The most engineered creature in history is also the world's most commonly mistreated animal.
The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.
Sheep with a nasty side.
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.
Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?
Stick to catching runaway livestock.
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on
and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter ...
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.
Beware the hobby that eats.
Farming is a profession of hope
The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
Where there are no oxen, the stalls are clean, But where there are abundant crops, the strength of an ox is evident.
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.
Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Don't have a cow, man.
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
Goats and monkies!
I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income.
If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.
Author points out how easily non-agricultural people miss the picture of God as all-providing in Psalm 50:10, Word to a people for whom cattle meant plowing and fertilizer as well as meat.
Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!
their lambs spent the whole summer loose in the highlands without any significant losses. They produced wool of consistently high quality, and were easy to feed and simple to handle. It was no surprise that other breeders
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I'm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
Never does Nature separate the animal and vegetable worlds. This is a mistake she cannot endure, and of all the errors which modern agriculture has committed this abandonment of mixed husbandry has been the most fatal.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.
going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle
The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I
I got mouths to feed,
Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.
Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.
You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.
We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. This war is new and has a name: factory farming.
I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.
Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself
Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.
Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'
But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow.
Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.
People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.
The fields studded with sheep.
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
Sheep and goats and cows
gather 'round a manger bed
to awe at a babe.
Hunting is doing business with animals.
When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.
Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes
Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
On a farm, you can get very bored.
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.
I come from generations of farmers.
Lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ...
Humans - a renewable resource.
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
I worked on a farm for a little bit.
We had three cows and a goat. People from New York and L.A. are like, 'Oh my gosh, that's a farm!' But people in Tennessee are like, 'That's not a farm.' I've never milked a cow or anything like that.
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.
Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens.
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation ... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.
Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
I like horse farms. I like the idea of animals growing on trees.
HAC: Human-Animal Conflict.
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
There are many ways to feed people.
People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve ... performing for us.
If I were I human, I'd plow the nicest farm for you.
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
I'm an animal lover.
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.