Millennium Development Goals
Send a Cow’s focus on food security and sustainable farming systems aims at a number of the Millennium Development Goals, the eight goals agreed by UN member states in 2000 to tackle world poverty.
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“At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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