Angus cattle

A. 1. This week’s session on sustainability hit very close to home with me. My adult children have been altering their consumption habits by buying organic, antibiotic free, and non-gmo products over the last few months. They have also been purchasing either free range or locally grown meats, local meat markets. After reading “A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change”, I also altered my buying habits for the week. I knew, from my daughters, that there were health benefits to eating organic…

Old Mcdonald had a farm and on that farm he slaughtered six chickens, ten cows and 12 pigs. Everyday animals are slaughtered brutally to feed the needs of greedy homo sapiens. Animals have rights too. People are fighting for the social justice for animals as you read this essay. The food industry is a harsh and undeniably unfair. I know it is unrealistic for everybody on the planet to become vegans. I want to bring light to the mistreatment of the animals in the food industry, and what goes on…

Though out history America has been in some sticky situations. The meat industry is one of these sticky situations. Back when the meat industry started up, they did not have regulations to follow, but now there’s laws the meat industry has to abide by. In today’s world the cow is the most used animal that produces Americans meat. The meat industry are putting themselves in a difficult spot, because the cows they are raising have steroids. Steroids make the cow’s size increase, so the more…

Alcove Springs is beautiful. The crystal clear water and the ten foot waterfall. The air is so fresh and the sky is so blue, much more blue than in Philadelphia. The only problem is the mosquitoes. They are everywhere. It has been a week since we left Independence and a lot has happened. When we left, there was a pile-up. Everyone was leaving at once, and one man was in such a hurry, he ran into the back of my wagon. It didn't hurt my wagon, but he broke one of his horse’s legs. A…

has nothing to do with agriculture, but it has everything to do with it. My grandfather, W.E. Butler…Buck Butler…and to me, Pawpaw, never gave up. He was a Texas Animal Health Commission Agent, rancher, and later, the proud owner of two successful cattle auction barns in Nixon and Beeville. He accomplished these things by standing up for what he believed in and…

In the article India’s Sacred Cow the author, Marvin Harris, attempts to explain the rationale behind the Indian culture’s admiration and worship of the cow, a practice which is often questioned by Westerners. He is able to illustrate that keeping cows alive is actually vital to the survival of many Indians and given their economic climate, is actually the most sustainable use of their resources. Harris brings up a number of factors that would indicate that defining the cow as sacred is a…

out about the secrets of food. On the way, he sees horrible treatment of many animals and the mass production of corn. “At first I thought the cattle were standing or lying in grayish mud. Then it dawned on me - that wasn’t mud at all. It was manure. An endless series of cattle pens stretched to the horizon, each one home to a hundred or so animals. The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill.” (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secret behind What…

Border collies are wonderful animals and here are some facts about them. Such as their origins, what they look like, behavior, and traits. Well the original border collie started out in Scotland and England helping farmers with herding animals. The border collie will herd most animals such as, sheep, cows, goats, and even pigs. They got their name in the late 1800’s “border” and “collie” got put together to make this very interesting breed name. Though they are all the same breed they have…

When the words ‘cloned beef’ are said what comes to mind? Some scary sci-fi movie which cattle looking like Frankenstein are running around, a steak on one plate being replicated by huge machines on another plate, or some futuristic thing that’s too far fetches to need to think about. Now, what if I were to say, despite all the things sci-fi movies, activists, and scariest our ideas have told us, that none of these are true? Cloned beef is not something to fear. It is not something to be…

If it came down to it would you put your family’s needs before your own. In the book “Where The Red Fern Grows” Billy was faced with this exact circumstance. Billy should have bought the mule for his family instead of the hounds for three reasons. His family needed a mule more than dogs, A mule was free labor, and the mule helped their family. The first reason Billy should have bought the mule for his family instead of the hounds is that Billy’s family needed a mule more than dogs. They…