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David Finlay, who farms 130 dairy cows near Gatehouse of Fleet, claims the system results in higher animal welfare standards and a more profitable business.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

We’re also working through legislative channels worldwide to improve the treatment of farm animals, and engaging with consumers who want to choose higher animal welfare products.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2016

The fact is that although some of the lower forms of life, such as bacteria, can survive freezing and thawing, no higher animal can, and certainly not man.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Digest later published the first complete account of the original study of memory transfer in a higher animal, the rat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The starting-point, not only of every higher animal or plant, but of every clan of organisms which by fission or gemmation have sprung from a single organism, is always a spore, seed, or ovum.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert