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It's a fascinating read, but sometimes it feels that the author just isn't particularly comfortable as a writer. As a result some passages felt very clunky, and there were transitions that left me rereading to try to figure out what just happened.
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it was cute and I learned a lot! the author was giving some weird anti-vax energy but maybe I was just looking too far into it
Some sweet stories and an obvious message, but not terribly enthralling overall.
This book gave me so much anxiety... "When her mom died.."... umm, did you mean, when you killed her?
Stories are really simple, I think it would be "easy read with one sitting" kind of book, if the topic would not be so disturbing. I really tried to read it as nice stories of cows, but I did not manage to ignore the reality.
That kind of farms are rare, I imagine this is what people think of, if they talk about "humane farms", but it's still nonsense. Sure, you let your cows run around "choose their own field", name them, hug them etc, but in the end they still end up the same.
Also the book talks "lovely stories" of female cows, and barely mention male ones- cause we all know what happens to them, and it would not be so positive book, if they would talk about all the killings as well.
And while spending time with cows you do learn about their joy, fear, friendships etc, author still wrote too many of her own thoughts as cows- "and then she looked at me, and thought..." , or about chicken "and she was so happy about..." (when chicken just ran away) Did they really think that or it was made up just in sake of good story telling?
So long story short: nice try, but I aint buying that BS.
Stories are really simple, I think it would be "easy read with one sitting" kind of book, if the topic would not be so disturbing. I really tried to read it as nice stories of cows, but I did not manage to ignore the reality.
That kind of farms are rare, I imagine this is what people think of, if they talk about "humane farms", but it's still nonsense. Sure, you let your cows run around "choose their own field", name them, hug them etc, but in the end they still end up the same.
Also the book talks "lovely stories" of female cows, and barely mention male ones- cause we all know what happens to them, and it would not be so positive book, if they would talk about all the killings as well.
And while spending time with cows you do learn about their joy, fear, friendships etc, author still wrote too many of her own thoughts as cows- "and then she looked at me, and thought..." , or about chicken "and she was so happy about..." (when chicken just ran away) Did they really think that or it was made up just in sake of good story telling?
So long story short: nice try, but I aint buying that BS.
A delightful book about cows and other farm animals. I'm still gonna eat all of them though.
A delightful insight into the lives of cows! The perfect length book for the subject, who needs to know that much about cows really you know? Easily read in one afternoon.
Cows (along with other farm animals) are up to much more than we think. They live seemingly full lives and are as diverse as people. Some people could argue that this whole book is just a farmer anthropomorphising animals but I don't think that's true. Humans deciding that we are the only animals that can have connections and feelings is just another example of our egotistical and conceited demeanour. One could argue we are not humanising an animal but mammal-ising a mammal (to quote Harari) which I wager is fair enough. It's been proven time and time again that animals have more complex social structures than we give them credit for yet we still consider that as humanising an animal, preposterous!
A great Christmas read over a nut roast! Or if one is feeling particular macabre a great Christmas read over a delectable steak! (soz the smug vegetarian in me couldn't resist, JK though OBVS NOT JUDGING BLAH BLAH I still enjoy a cheese board every now and again CALM DOWN people are so sensitive)
Cows (along with other farm animals) are up to much more than we think. They live seemingly full lives and are as diverse as people. Some people could argue that this whole book is just a farmer anthropomorphising animals but I don't think that's true. Humans deciding that we are the only animals that can have connections and feelings is just another example of our egotistical and conceited demeanour. One could argue we are not humanising an animal but mammal-ising a mammal (to quote Harari) which I wager is fair enough. It's been proven time and time again that animals have more complex social structures than we give them credit for yet we still consider that as humanising an animal, preposterous!
A great Christmas read over a nut roast! Or if one is feeling particular macabre a great Christmas read over a delectable steak! (soz the smug vegetarian in me couldn't resist, JK though OBVS NOT JUDGING BLAH BLAH I still enjoy a cheese board every now and again CALM DOWN people are so sensitive)
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