I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.

~ Auberon Herbert

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So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.

~ Michael Pollan

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Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

~ Frank Herbert

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Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

~ T.k. Naliaka

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