Best Livestock Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She was giving him a look. It took Eustace a second to figure out what it was. Her off-kilter gaze traveled the length of his body, then lingered pointedly. The gesture was supposed to be seductive but was more like livestock trying to sell itself.”

Seduction Flirting Livestock Wandering Eyes

Book:The City of Mirrors

Source: The City of Mirrors

“The mongoose took a while to warm to the family, at least enough that he did not as often threaten their life and livestock.”

Life Family Threat Livestock Threaten Gef The Talking Mongoose

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Public grazing provides just one dollar out of every $2,500 of taxable income in the West, or 0.04 percent, and just one out of everything 1,400 jobs, or 0.07 percent. On both public and private lands in the eleven Western states, the livestock industry accounts for less than 0.5 percent of all income.”

Economy Cattle Livestock

Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“The top 10 percent of grazing-permit holders on federal lands own 50 percent of all livestock on those lands; the bottom 50 percent own just 5 percent.”

Cattle Livestock Grazing Ranchers

Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“With traumatized Navajos watching, government agents shot sheep and goats and left them to rot or cremated them after dousing them with gasoline. At one site alone, thirty-five goats were shot and left to rot. One hundred fifty thousand goats and fifty thousand sheep were killed in this manner. Oral history interviews tell of the pressure tactics on the Navajos, including arrests of those who resisted, and express bitterness over the destruction of their livestock.”

Sheep American History Agriculture Goats Us History Livestock Navajo

Book:An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Source: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation. It is only the wealthy that can, to any great degree, even now, indulge the unnatural craving for dead flesh, and they pay for the greater licence of privilege, by subjection to supernumerary diseases.”

Waste Animals Vegetarianism Veganism Livestock Plant Based Diet Food Production Environmental Impact Meat Consumption Agricultural Land Use

Book:A Vindication of Natural Diet: Being One in a Series of Notes to Queen Mab

Source: A Vindication of Natural Diet: Being One in a Series of Notes to Queen Mab

“Urban Americans lost the tactile experience of raising food. They neither heard the squeals, nor smelled he offal, nor saw the blood, nor tasted the rage when predators swallowed a cherished investment.”

Wolves Livestock Urbanization Violence Against Animals Urban And Rural America

Book:Vicious: Wolves and Men in America

Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America

“The largest sources of CO2 from animal agriculture come not from the animals themselves (through respiration and waste), but from the inputs and land-use changes necessary to maintain and feed them, including: burning fossil fuels to produce fertilisers used in feed production; maintaining intensive animal production facilities; growing the associated animal feed; transporting the animal feed; and processing and transporting the animal products. Furthermore, clearing land to graze livestock and grow feed is the largest single cause of deforestation and among the major causes of land degradation and desertification.”

Climate Change Meat Animals Sustainability Agriculture Greenhouse Gases Livestock Animal Agriculture Meat Lobby Polution

Book:Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial

Source: Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial

“We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.”

Wells Children Light Used House Fire Mountain Horse Winter Climbs Climbing Cows Goats Climbing Mountain Livestock Winter Time Firewood

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.”

“Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.”

Long Different Animal Disease West South Climate Species Spread East Zone Adopted Mammals Axes Livestock North Africa Different Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“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.”

“The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.”

“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.”

Thinking Mind I Can Facts Reality Running Able Used Language Design College Tests Equipment Virtual Reality Livestock

Author:Temple Grandin

“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“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 doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.”

World Country Enough Bigs Gold Texas Poorest Cotton Imports Livestock Mali

Author:Richard Engel

“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.”

“When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.”

“I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.”

People Order Animal Horse Army Prepared Favors Regions Harvest Plague Bacteria Livestock Anthrax Mildew

Author:Winston Churchill

“Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on.”

“I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.”

Persons Stills Strange Obsessed Hobbies Cattle Barns Hog Livestock Strange Person

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.”

People Mean Long Fun Months Percent Shots Raised Eight Vegetarian Ninety Steak Livestock Tofu Soy Long Shots Ninety Eight

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“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.”

Use Problem Animal Opinion Objects Abuse Cruelty Welfare Hitting Typical Truck Deliberate Frequency Transportation Animal Welfare Physical Abuse Livestock

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

Years States Used Levels United Known United States South Seven Extremes Poison Chemicals Vietnam Warfare Seven Years Crops Livestock Chemical Warfare

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I talked to Larry the Cable Guy the other day. Larry's made more money than 10 people should ever make in a lifetime. He was excited because he'd gone over to the livestock auction and bought 20 new feeder pigs.”

People Should Made Guy Gone Lifetime Excited More Money Pigs Cables Larry Auctions Livestock

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.”

People Feels Should Firsts Humans Kind Earth Nature Animal Share Creatures Appetite Murderer Human Relations Predator Human Relationships Persecuted Livestock Animals In Nature Vandals

Author:Sy Montgomery

“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.”

“Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef.”

“Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.”

“Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.”

Wells Today Land Industry Percent Caught Fishes Meals Fifty Fishing Feds Ingredients Farms Factories Supplies Livestock

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Indeed, a report from the United Nations has revealed that the livestock industry is the number-one contributor to global warming gasses - higher than even the transport industry. Plus, the effect of the livestock industry on our waterways and oceans is disastrous.”

Nations United Numbers Effects Industry Higher Ocean Reports Global Warming Plus United Nations Transport Contributors Livestock

Author:Karen Dawn

“[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.”

Giving Art Book Done Shows Shots Photograph Museums Fourteen Forts Rodeo Livestock Fort Worth

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.”

Self Wanted Interest My Own Acting Self Esteem Identity Built Horse Esteem Hobbies Paychecks Livestock Separate Lives

Author:Ricky Schroder

“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.”

Firsts Age Father Pride Shots Holiday Lions Threatened Livestock

Author:Wilbur Smith

“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.”

Humans Children War Use Human Beings Enemy Watches Information Television Army Raises Slave Labour Farms Capture Chemicals Ants Embarrassment Alarms Spray Fungi Livestock Child Labour

Author:Lewis Thomas

Humans Made Purpose Culture Forget Animal Example Population Entertainment Propaganda Satire Ducks Mice Popular Culture Walt Mickey Livestock

Author:Frans de Waal

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”

Writing Looks May Important Stories Seems Interest Imagination Broken Wall Fit Research Built Stones Predator Discarded Livestock Stone Walls

Author:Roland Smith

“But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.”

People Stills Today Lying Animal Hair Walking Flesh Grass Diets Reports Sugar Carbon Feeding Corn Researchers Protein Tissues Beverages Livestock Sacrilege True People Isotopes

Author:Michael Pollan

“As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.”

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.”

Book Reading Oneself Livestock

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.”

Believe Made Stills Names Force Sound Animal Leader Events Majors Ridiculous Life Changing Rebellion Sheep Livestock Stuffed Animal Life Changing Events

Book:Inside: Inside Out\Outside In

Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In

“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”

Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

“...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick”

Ifs Needs Giving Said Done Play Used Three Games Fire Mark Burning Needles Hay Livestock Head Start

Book:Among the Brave

Source: Among the Brave

“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”

“We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose. "Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes. The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. "I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says. "Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing.”

People Knows Feels May Guy Fighting Asks Stuff Cities Know How Growing Streets College Standing Horse Soldier Noses Cows Pigs Covering Tomatoes Wade Manure Livestock Cadets

Author:Melina Marchetta

“The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report is aimed at counties that are more rural than Delaware County. We believe Shideler is too densely populated for an ag park.”

Believe Vision Parks Reports County Livestock Delaware

Author:Thurman Munson

“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself”

Ifs Humans Done Whole Together Certain Universe Process Sound Natural Existence Environment Pieces Failing Claims Medicine Patterns Various Missions Discovering Continuing Livestock

Author:Louis Bromfield

“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”

Said Mother Suffering Poor Known Poverty Empowerment Versions Cures Opposing Emancipation Gift From God Reproduction Compulsory Teresa Livestock

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.”

“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.”

World Humans Desire Culture Impossible Creation Involved Approach Creating Majors Code Daily Life Agriculture Crops Ecological Participating Artifacts Livestock

Book:Becoming Native to This Place

Source: Becoming Native to This Place

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