Digestive system Quote by Walter Johnson

“Good digestion is for the bovine.”

— Christina Stead

“Humans can’t eat grass, but cattle, thanks to their microscopic partners, are performing the service of turning inedible grasses into protein that we can…

— Judith D. Schwartz

When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave…

— Michael Pollan

“Cows, by virtue of the plentiful and varied bacteria in their rumen, are able to derive energy from things that would pass through a…

— Mary Roach

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They…

— Michael Pollan

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and…

— Wendell Berry

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Get grass-fed animal foods. Cattle are grass-eating animals by nature.”

— Deborah Kesten

“animals, using natural waste products as fertilizers. Even today, in many parts of India where technology is minimal, food is produced mostly by hand…

— Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff

“Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful boxed and…

— Kristin Kimball

“grass-fed cattle produce milk and dairy products, such as butter and cheese, that can be a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins (E, A, K2,…

— Deborah Kesten

“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and…

— Michael Pollan