Belongs Quote by David Wilmot

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

— Daniel Webster

“When the price of cattle, for example, rises so high that it is as profitable to cultivate land in order to raise food for…

— Adam Smith

“Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The…

— Daniel Webster

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow.…

— Daniel Webster

“The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice,…

— GaryLFrancione

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only…

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled…

— Mary McCarthy

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at…

— Thomas Sowell

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

— Wendell Berry

“the subtler impact of not having one. The effect of a few hundred cattle grazing unrestrained, every day, within and around the village is…

— Madhu Ramnath

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

— Matthew Scully

“Healthy soil is contingent on the actions of the animals that live on the land; livestock could be made to act upon the soil…

— Judith D. Schwartz