10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

After a bit of searching, I found that it appears to be part of an even longer commandment: “Rise and rise again until lambs become lions” This is pretty serious stuff coming from a can of beer; all I wanted was a drink, thank you. The Bible, possibly, with all this quasi-Messianic, New Testament talk of lambs and lions?

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Connecticut India Lamb Lions 139

Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

She expressed her gratitude for those she kills in her book, as well: "When I first ate a meal from one of our lambs, I thought I'd be upset, since it'd been so hard to take them to the abbattoir. But instead of being sad or upset at the lamb chop on my plate, I was overcome with gratitude.

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Sheep Slaughter Slaughtered Lamb 100

Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

I think I'm going to start a contest for the most absurd/ironic/bizarre sentence to come out of the mouth of a human each week. Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up).

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Buffalo Lamb Goats Protest 100

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. But enlightened public opinion in human society approves of man's carnivorous behavior. Anyone who loves little lambs in a personal way more than he loves lamb chops in a gustatory way ought to forego the latter delicacies.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

I refuse to eat pork, but eat grass-fed beef when I am making Persian food, and certain forms of chicken and lamb with other ethnic foods I consume. Do you eat the human flesh served to you by your hosts? What if it's customary to allow guests to torture or kill one of the tribe? I, like you, am not a complete vegetarian.

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Vegetarian Lamb Animal Welfare Meat 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. More and more people do not. We call ourselves vegetarians.

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New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 3, 2007

Doesn't it just tell us to kill them all?" When Jesus died on the cross, He didn't just save us humans—He died for the animals, too. Lambs, goats, birds were sacrificed at home, at temples and on altars themselves. The animals took the place of humans. Sadly, this kind of reaction is not uncommon.

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Lamb Goats Humane Animal 40