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Sheep & Goats
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also Animals as Food
Mustering
Sheep with a Click of the Mouse
Daniel Lewis, Sydney Morning Herald, feature — February 2006
The
technology involved in the e-sheep project lets a farmer — without
even leaving the farmhouse — draft animals based
on weight, age, sex or wool thickness, using automated
gates. In
drought it lets a farmer instantly pick which animals are
losing condition, so they can be given extra food or sold...
Agro-ecosystem:
Tannery and Leather Industry
Shafiq-ur-Rehman, Greater Kashmir, feature — July
2005
Almost all the world output of leather produced
is from cattle hides and calfskins, goatskins and kidskins,
and sheepskins and lambskins. Other hides and skins
used include those of the horse, pig, kangaroo, deer,
reptile, seal, and walrus, but they amount significantly
fewer...
Sacrificial
Ram
Daniel Duane, Mother Jones, investigation — March/April
2005
Conservation
groups think they’ve found a way to save endangered
animals — by selling off the right to kill
a few... “A
lot of antihunting types make the mistake of looking
at the individual animal as most important”...
What's
Wrong With Wool?
Jennifer Greengaum, Animal Protection Institute,
feature
To
buy wool is to support the slaughter of lambs and sheep,
and to contribute to the meat industry by purchasing
a by-product of its main harvest...
The
Not-So-Good Shepherd
Animal News Center, commentary — 2004
They
died of starvation, heatstroke, dehydration, or when
their bodies could no longer take the stress of being
locked in darkness amidst thousands of pounds of their
own excrement, 100-plus degree heat, and no ventilation...
Got
Silk?
Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, feature — June
2002
This
is a so-called “transgenic farm” — a
place where animal species are either cloned or genetically
mixed to create medically useful substances — owned
and run by a firm named Nexia Biotechnologies...
If You Held the Knife
Susan Rich, poem
The lamb to the slaughter / So innocent and white / Will end up as somebody's dinner tonight / As lamb "chops" or "stew" / With mint jelly, "au jus"...
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