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In the Beginning Was the Cow
1 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Genesis 1:22 and 1:26.
2 Michael Brackmann, Das andere Kuhbuch: Vierzig Rasseporträts und mehr. Hannover: Landbuch, 2002: p. 7.
2 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: p. 17.
6 Eckhard Fuhr, “Die Leiden der jungen Muhkuh.” Die Welt, August 1, 2007.
6 Johann Gottfried Ebel, Schilderung der Gebirgsvölker der Schweitz. Leipzig: Pet. Phil. Wolfische Buchhandlung, 1798: p. 79.
8 Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Vol. 1 and 2. Vintage, 1996.
8 Frédéric Boyer, Vaches. Paris: P.O.L., 2008.
8 Elisabeth von Tadden and Ulrich Schnabel, “Die Kühe haben das Wort. Gene, Tiermehl und andere Mitbürger: Ein Gespräch mit dem Wissenschaftsforscher Bruno Latour.” Die Zeit, November 30, 2000: pp. 67–68.
9 Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars. St. Petersburg, FL: Red & Black Publishers, 2008: p. 167.
11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “On Myron’s Cow.” American Journal of Philology, Vol. 131, No. 4, Winter 2010: pp. 725–729.
A Kingdom for a Cow
12 Pat Paulsen, “Two Cows.” Pat Paulsen for President (Audio CD). Laugh.com/Fontana, 2003.
13 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993.
13 Jacob Grimm, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Hollywood, FL: Simon & Brown, 2011: pp. 14–15.
17 Otto Schrader, quoted in Wilhelm Gerloff, Die Entstehung des Geldes und die Anfänge des Geldwesens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1940: p. 104.
17 Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels. London: A&C Black, 1866: p. 63.
18 Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy—Vol. i, Part i: The Process of Capitalist Production. New York: Cosimo Inc., 2007: pp. 94, 173.
18 Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola and the Germania. New York: Penguin Classics, 2010: pp. 104–105.
20 Ovid, Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005: pp. 40, 80.
20 Friedrich Hebbel, “Die Kuh.” Werke, Vol. 3. Munich: Hanser, 1965: pp. 489–493.
24 Kurt Weill and Robert Vambery, Der Kuhhandel: Auszüge. Königsdorf: Capriccio, 1992.
26 Hermann Essig, Die Glückskuh. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1918.
Flesh and Blood
29 François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel. Project Gutenberg Ebook 1200, Book II, chapter 2, IV
31 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: pp. 155–156.
32 Jacques Derrida, Points . . . Interviews, 1974–1994. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995: p. 281.
32 Den Fujita, quoted in Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: p. 271.
33 Roland Barthes, Mythologies. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972: p. 62.
33 Bertolt Brecht, Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970: p. 64.
34 Beat Sterchi, The Cow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988: p. 109.
34 Nan Mellinger, Fleisch: Ursprung und Wandel einer Lust. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus, 2003.
34 Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon of Petronius. Charleston, SC: Forgotten Books, 1971: pp. 71–72.
35 Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Opera. New York: Grove Press, 1964: p. 27.
36 Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, Vol. 1. Riverside, NJ: Andrews McMeel, 2003: p. 406.
38 Jochen F. Fey, “Kochkunst auf der documenta XII: Gedanken zum ‘Kochen’ und zur ‘Kunst.’ ” journal culinaire: Kultur und Wissenschaft des Essens 5 (November 2007): pp. 49–52.
38 François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel. Project Gutenberg Ebook 1200, Book II, chapter 2, IV
Milk
39 Vilém Flusser, “Kühe.” Vogelflüge: Essays zu Natur und Kultur. Munich and
Vienna: Hanser, 2000: p. 44–48.
40 “Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1898/87 of 2 July 1987 on the protection of designations used in marketing of milk and milk products.” eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31987R1898:EN:HTML.
41 Michael Brackmann, Kuhkunstführer. Münster: Landwirtschaftsverlag, 2006.
42 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Reprint Services Cooperation, 2007: pp. 141–142.
43 Rolf Husmann, in Andreas Kronenberg and Rolf Husmann. “Nuer (Ostafrika, Oberer Nil): Tägliche Arbeiten im Viehlager.” Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. Göttingen: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, 1976: Film E 706/1964.
44 Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993: p. 454.
44 Thomas Dineley, in A.T. Lucas. Cattle in Ancient Ireland. Kilkenny: Boethius, 1989: p. 56.
45 Barthold Heinrich Brockes, “Die Heerde Kühe.” Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, bestehend in Physikalisch- und Moralischen Gedichten, Vol. 2. Hamburg: Herold et al., 1735–48 [1970]: pp. 201–202.
49 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5, 15–18.
49 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Exodus 33:3.
50 Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961. ia600301.us.archive.org/34/items/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents/freud_civilization_and_its_discontents.pdf.
51 Heinz Strunk, Fleisch ist mein Gemüse: Eine Landjugend mit Musik. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2004.
51 Dieter Schnack and Rainer Neutzling, quoted in Lothar Schon, Entwicklung des Beziehungsdreiecks Vater-Mutter-Kind. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1995: p. 123.
51 From Poems of Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger. Translation copyright © 1972, 1980, 1988, 2002 by Michael Hamburger. Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc., New York.
52 Rose Ausländer, “Ins Leben.” Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1985: p. 66.
52 Robert Johnson, “Milk Cow’s Calf Blues.” The Complete Recordings, CBS, 1990.
53 Norbert Kaser, “eine kuh.” es bockt mein herz: Überlebenstexte. Leipzig: Reclam, 1993: pp. 55–56.
Hide and Hair
56 Barthold Heinrich Brockes, “Die Heerde Kühe.” Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, bestehend in Physikalisch—und Moralischen Gedichten, Vol. 2. Hamburg: Herold et al., 1735–48 [1970]: pp. 201–202.
58 Arnold Stadler, Mein Hund, meine Sau, mein Leben. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1996.
Udder and Vulva
72 Time Magazine, quoted in Sean Griffin, Tinker Bells and Evil Queens. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
72 Magnus Hirschfeld, ed., Geschlecht und Verbrechen. Leipzig and Vienna: Schneider & Co., 1930.
73 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Leviticus 20:15, 20:16.
75 Peter Stierli, quoted in Stephanie Riedi, Roland Grüter, and Tom Haller, “Stalldrang.” facts, September 16, 1998: pp. 104–109.
77 Alan Lomax, “I’m Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows.” The Folk Songs of North America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1960: p. 368.
81 Ernst Jandl, “seichende kuh.” Poetische Werke. Munich: Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1997: p. 132.
82 Ovid, The Art of Love. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1943: p. 24.
83 Botho Strauß, The Park. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988: pp. 65–66.
83 Michael Brackmann, Kuhkunstführer. Münster: Landwirtschaftsverlag, 2006.
84 Ovid, The Art of Love. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1943: p. 26.
84 Keith O’Brien, quoted in “Cardinal O’Brien Condemns ‘Monstrous’ Embryo Research.” 4RFV March 21, 2008, www.4rfv.co.uk/nationalnews.asp?id=73347.
84 Peter Michalski, “Forscher züchten ersten Kuh-Menschen.” Bild, April 2, 2008, www.bild.de/news/vermischtes/beruehmte-deutsche-forscher/von-forschern-gezuechtet-4167794.bild.html.
84 Lyle Armstrong, quoted in “U.K. Approves Human-Animal Hybrids.” Cosmos, September 6, 2007, www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1564/uk-approves-human-animal-hybrids.
The Eye
88 Johann Baptist Fischart and Jakob Böhme, quoted in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Kuh,” Deutsches Wörterbuch, Vol. 11. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1854–1960: pp. 2546–2551.
88 Richard Marius, Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999: p. 75.
88 Johann Baptist Fischart and Jakob Böhme, quoted in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Kuh,” Deutsches Wörterbuch, Vol. 11. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1854–1960: pp. 2546–2551.
88 Otto Dornblüth, Klinisches Wörterbuch. Berlin and Leipzig: deGruyter, 1927.
88 Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. New York: Touchstone, 1997: p. 71.
89 Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dalí. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1995: p. 102.
90 William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999: p. 133.
90 Martin Buber, I and Thou. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004: p. 73.
90 Hellmut von Cube, “Die Kühe.” Tierskizzenbüchlein. Berlin: S. Fischer, 1935: pp. 20–23.
91 Beat Sterchi, The Cow. Pantheon Books, 1988: pp. 350–351.
92 Martin Mosebach, Das Beben. Munich: Hanser, 2005.
95 Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with a Theory of Meaning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010: p. 69.
95 Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 2006: p. 8.
97 John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
Happiness through Rumination
100 Heinrich Böll, Irish Journal. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998: p. 42.
101 Thomas Bewick, A General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition. Newcastle: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1792: p. 23.
101 D.H. Lawrence, “Love Was Once a Little Boy.” In Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, eds., The Animal Ethics Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2003: pp. 104–105.
102 Joachim Ringelnatz, “Kühe.” Die Gedichte. Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins, 2005: p. 274.
102 Hellmut von Cube, “Die Kühe.” Tierskizzenbüchlein. Berlin: S. Fischer, 1935: pp. 20–23.
103 British Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative, www.love-om.com/om-tea-break-meditation.ashx. Accessed October 28, 2008.
105 Barthold Heinrich Brockes, “Die Heerde Kühe.” Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, bestehend in Physikalisch—und Moralischen Gedichten, Vol. 2. Hamburg: Herold et al., 1735–48 [1970]: pp. 201–202.
105 Robert Musil, “Grigia.” In Eithre Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, Five Women by Robert Musil. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1999: p. 27.
107 Augustine, Confessions. New York: Penguin Classics, 1961: pp. 220–221.
108 Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, Vol. 1. Riverside, NJ: Andrews McMeel, 2003: p. 160.
108 Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997: p. 60.
110 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Plain Label Books, 1967: pp. 411–412, 414–416, 307.
Herding Cows
113 Theocritus, Tyrtaeus, James Davies, Richard Polwhele, and Matthew James Chapman, The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus and the War-Songs of Tyrtaeus. London: H.G. Bohn, 1870: pp. 104–105.
114 Alexander Pope, “Winter. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne.” John Butt, ed. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Abingdon: Routledge, 1963: pp. 135–139.
115 Mönch von Salzburg, “Das kchühorn.” In Martina Backes, ed. Tagelieder des deutschen Mittelalters. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1992: pp. 204–207.
118 Johann Gottfried Ebel, Schilderung der Gebirgsvölker der Schweitz. Leipzig: Pet. Phil. Wolfische Buchhandlung, 1798: p. 79.
120 Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, “Emmenthaler Kühreihen.” Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte Deutsche Lieder, Vol 3. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006: pp. 130–131.
122 John Gay, The Shepherd’s Week. London: Jacob Tonson, 1721: p. 18.
122 Heinrich Heine, The Poems of Heine. London: George Bell & Sons, 1887: p. 554.
124 Wilhelm Busch, Balduin Bählamm, der verhinderte Dichter. Munich: Verlag Fr. Bassermann, 1911, pp. 32–33.
The Moo
128 Michel Houellebecq, Whatever. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1998: p. 8.
128 Virgil, The Works of Virgil, Vol. 2. New York: T&J Swords, 1811: p. 238.
129 Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience. London: Verso, 1993: p. 61.
130 Melanie Feist, Untersuchungen zum Schmerzausdrucksverhalten bei Kühen nach Klauenoperationen, deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97250172x&dok_var=d1&dok_fpr=md5&filename=d-nb.d5.txt.
131 Ovid, Metamorphoses. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing, 2010: pp. 24, 303.
133 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1990: p. 51.
134 Ovid, Metamorphoses. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing, 2010: pp. 28–29.
134 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Matthew 12:34.
134 Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. New York: Grove Press, 1993: pp. 44, 47, 49.
Behind the Fence
139 Beat Sterchi, The Cow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988: p. 5.
140 Bertolt Brecht, “Cow at Cud.” Ars Interpres—Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art, No. 3, 2004: p. 28.
141 Beat Sterchi, The Cow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988: p. 54.
142 Michael Brackmann, Das andere Kuhbuch: Vierzig Rasseporträts und mehr. Hannover: Landbuch, 2002.
143 Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 2006: p. 247.
143 Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984: p. 53.
144 James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana. Glasgow and New York: Routledge, 1887 : p. 116.
144 Bertolt Brecht, Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970: p. 29.
144 Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004: p. 103.
145 Johann Gottfried Ebel, Schilderung der Gebirgsvölker der Schweitz. Leipzig: Pet. Phil. Wolfische Buchhandlung, 1798: p. 79.
149 Thomas Kapielski, Danach war schon: Gottesbeweise i–viii. Berlin: Merve, 1999.
149 Zwi Bacharach, in interview. “Witnesses and Testimony, ” Yad Vashem, www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/ceremonies/witness_testimony.asp.
149 Thomas Kapielski, Danach war schon: Gottesbeweise i–viii. Berlin: Merve, 1999.
151 Vilém Flusser, “Kühe.” Vogelflüge: Essays zu Natur und Kultur. Munich and Vienna: Hanser, 2000: p. 44–48.
153 Walter Kaufmann, ed., The Portable Nietzsche. New York: Penguin Books, 1977: p. 383.
Sacred Cows
156 Mahatma Gandhi, in Steven J. Rosen, Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism and Animal Rights. Herndon, VA: Lantern Books, 2004: p. 37.
157 Mahatma Gandhi, Speeches and Writing of M.K. Gandhi. Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2010: p. 830.
157 Paul Bowles, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue. New York: Random House, 1963: pp. 57–58.
158 Marvin Harris, et al., “The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle.” Current Anthropology 7 (1966): pp. 51–60.
159 Clemens Six, “‘Hinduise all Politics & Militarize Hindudom!!’ Fundamentalismen im Hinduismus.” In Clemens Six, Martin Riesebrodt and Siegfried Haas, eds., Religiöser Fundamentalismus: Vom Kolonialismus zur Globalisierung. Innsbruck: Studien, 2005: pp. 247–268.
160 Tierno Monénembo, Peuls. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004.
161 Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology. New York: Penguin Classics, 2006: p. 15.
161 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: p. 25.
162 K.S. Bharathi, The Social Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Concept Publishing Company, 1991: p. 75.
162 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Exodus 20:4, 20:5.
165 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: p. 32.
165 Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984: p. 372.
167 Xenophanes of Colophon, Fragments. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001: pp. 83, 89.
Evil Cows
168 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: p. 23.
169 Martin Luther, quoted in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Kuh,” Deutsches Wörterbuch, Vol. 11. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1854–1960: pp. 2546–2551.
170 Beat Sterchi, The Cow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988: pp. 121, 92.
170 Thomas Kapielski, Danach war schon: Gottesbeweise i–viii. Berlin: Merve, 1999.
171 Ambrose Bierce, The Complete Stories of Ambrose Bierce. Lawrence, KS: Digireads.com Publishing, 2008: pp. 273, 279, 276.
175 Bernhard Pötter, “Klimakiller ersten Ranges.” Die Zeit, January 18, 2007: p. 21.
175 Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Plume, 1993: pp. 186, 284.
177 Chris Goodall. Ten Technologies to Save the Planet. Vancouver, BC: Greystone, 2010: p. 263.
179 David Bee, quoted in Barbara Supp, “Auch Minister haben Angst.” Der Spiegel, October 5, 1998: pp. 126–132.
179 Barbara Supp, “Rinderwahn.” Der Spiegel, October 5, 1998. www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-8002705.html.
180 Julian Green, quoted in Iris Radisch, “Der Kuhhandel der Werte: Warum Julien Green den BSE Skandal nicht versteht.” Die Zeit, November 30, 2000: p. 27.
180 Klaus-Peter Rippe, “Schadet es Kühen, Tiermehl zu fressen?” In Martin Liechti, ed., Die Würde des Tieres. Erlangen: Harald Fischer, 2002: pp. 233–242.
181 Nan Mellinger, Fleisch: Ursprung und Wandel einer Lust. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus, 2003.
181 Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2005: pp. 1131–1132.
184 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Genesis 41:36.
184 Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2005: p. 1139.
185 Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, Vol. 1. Riverside, NJ: Andrews McMeel, 2003: p. 549.
Apocalypse Cow
187 Georg Pfleiderer, “Theologische Überlegungen zur Wahrnehmung von Tieren in der Moderne.” In Martin Liechti, ed. Die Würde des Tieres. Erlangen: Harald Fischer, 2002: pp. 47–60.
187 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Book of Revelation 16:14, 21:1.
188 Robert Motherwell, The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989: p. 226.
188 Richard Huelsenbeck, Memoirs of a Dada Drummer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991: p. 145.
193 Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. New York: Picador, 1980: pp. 80, 83, 93, 94, 95–96.
196 Martin Luther, Sämtliche Schriften, Vol. 22: Colloquia oder Tischreden. Groß Oesingen: Heinrich Harms, 1987.
196 Eckhard Henscheid, Welche Tiere und warum das Himmelreich erlangen können: Neue theologische Studien. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1995.
197 Conrad Alberti, quoted in Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer, The Modern German Novel: A Series of Studies and Appreciations. Manchester, NH: Ayer Publishing, 1977: p. 81.
197 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Matthew 26:26.
198 Justinus Kerner, “Das Kalb,” Werke, Vol. 1, Berlin: Bong & Co, 1914: p. 179.
199 New American Standard Bible (© 1995), Isaiah 11:6.