“It was 1991, and the communist guerrillas in their village had just stolen the family's one and only carabao.”

“It may be topped with cheese made from the milk of the carabao, slices of salted duck eggs, butter.”

“The next wave came from Malaysia and is credited with developing agriculture and introducing carabao as draft animals.”

“It suggests that beef and carabeef, from animals of the same age and given a uniform feed, have indistinguishable eating quality.”

“The weaker carabaos are slaughtered for meat, the stronger ones put to work on Golgotha, and the drivers are assimilated into the workforce.”

“Collected notes on the insect transmission of surra in carabaos.”

“The 1998 Animal Welfare Act of the Philippines says that only cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, poultry, rabbits, carabaos, horses, deer and crocodiles could be killed for food.”