Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
I have no affinity for cows. I mean, they're cool.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.
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.
The cow of many, well milked and badly fed.
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.'
You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.
Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Milk production is one of India's great success stories.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.
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.
I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
