Sentences with phrase «herds of oxen»
Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»
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Society is topsy - turvy: «He who had no yoke of oxen is now possessor of a herd. . . .
Some humanitarian organizations facilitate livestock donations to poor households in developing countries, but does giving a cow, a pair of oxen, or a herd of goats to a poor household really benefit the recipients?
They lived as a cross species community with the herd, (horses and oxen) and tended to only eat animals that were old and wouldn't make it through winter etc, rather than our habit of eating the babies.
At the center of it is a way of managing a cattle herd virtually unique in modern farming (though it wouldn't have been far out of place in pre-industrial times): No cows, bulls or oxen are killed at all; all cows are hand - milked; cows suckle from their mothers; and bulls are given work.