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While small amounts of trans fats are naturally present in meats and dairy products from cows, sheep, and other ruminants, the great majority of trans fats in our diet are industrially-produced, contained in foods made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Caring about Animals in the Era of Foot and MouthOn British television recently, a tearful farmer spoke of the fact that his sheep were being shot to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease: "We’re so sorry to see our lambs die – they should be the symbol of spring, of new life.
“Thirty years ago people were sheep and Khomeini was their shepherd,” a prominent Iranian democratic activist told me.
In the past, cattle, sheep, and goats fed on grass and other energy sources unavailable to humans, while pigs and chickens fed on waste, thus contributing overall to total food availability.
A sheep gone astray is one thing; if the shepherd leaves, the entire herd is at risk.
If all you have for raw material is a sheep, it is the closest thing you can get to Gore-Tex.
And though the Western media depicted Trump as the black sheep of the summit, Italy, too, now has a government that favors rapprochement with Russia.
The first part of this procedure is similar to that used to create Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal.
Dolly the sheep – although still going strong five years after her birth, and the mother of six (all conceived the old-fashioned way) – has always been plump.
Grazing ruminant animals, like cattle and sheep, also contribute significantly to climate change.
These then form the premises of logical reasoning of the type, “All sheep are white, therefore the next sheep I meet will be white.”
Is it really the case that all sheep are white, in every place and clime?
In 2017, there were an estimated 1.5 billion cattle, one billion pigs, 23 billion poultry animals, and two billion sheep and goats.
So the Nautilus's crew could dress themselves at little cost, without needing a thing from cotton growers, sheep, or silkworms on shore.
To shut himself up every evening in the dirty public room, to push about on marble tables the small sheep bones with black dots, seemed to him a fine proof of his freedom, which raised him in his own esteem.
As to the chemist's spouse, she was the best wife in Normandy, gentle as a sheep, loving her children, her father, her mother, her cousins, weeping for other's woes, letting everything go in her household, and detesting corsets; but so slow of movement, such a bore to listen to, so common in appearance, and of such restricted conversation, that although she was thirty, he only twenty, although they slept in rooms next each other and he spoke to her daily, he never thought that she might be a woman for another, or that she possessed anything else of her sex than the gown.
There was nothing extraordinary about the country; the sky was blue, the trees swayed; a flock of sheep passed.
They would be heroic sheep, allowing their throats to be cut without a word.
What would Boniface de La Mole have said if, raising his severed head from the tomb, he had seen, in 1793, seventeen of his descendants allow themselves to be penned like sheep, to be guillotined a day or two later?
"A t'ink colored man like a sheep!
The ascent was quite abrupt, but she soon found a sheep path that wound among the shelving rocks and through the trees, so as to render her labor much less tiresome than it otherwise would have been.
He struck into one of the sheep paths, and, crossing the clearing with rapid steps, they came suddenly upon a horse, caparisoned for a rider of no mean rank.
Harper bent and pressed a paternal kiss upon her forehead, and continued: "Any of these sheep paths will take you to the plain; but here we must part - I have much to do and far to ride; forget me in all but your prayers."
Anybody that'll take a dare will steal sheep."
It has a brave sound, West Inch, but it is not a fine estate with a braw house upon it, but only a great hard-bitten, wind-swept sheep run, fringing off into links along the sea-shore, where a frugal man might with hard work just pay his rent and have butter instead of treacle on Sundays.
She was for ever staring out in front of her with her lips parted, as if she saw something wonderful; but when I came behind her and looked the same way, I could see nothing but the sheep's trough or the midden, or father's breeches hanging on a clothes-line.
One day when I came in from the sheep, there was my father sitting with a letter in his hands, which was a very rare thing with us, except when the factor wrote for the rent.
It was a poor life this, at West Inch, waiting to fill my father's shoes, with the same heath, and the same burn, and the same sheep, and the same grey house for ever before me.
"Mother," I cried, "I'm off for a soldier!"Had I said I was off for a burglar they could not have looked worse over it, for in those days among the decent canny country folks it was mostly the black sheep that were herded by the sergeant.
But, my word, those same black sheep did their country some rare service too.
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