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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
Kiva pikkuinen kirja joka kertoo luomulehmien temmellyksestä. Jokin tässä kuitenkin tökki. Jos minulla olisi lehmiä, lehmillä nimet ja omanlaisensa luonteet, en kyllä pystyisi saattamaan niitä päivän lirkuttelujen päätteeksi teurasautoon. Toisaalta, jos kaikki lehmätilat olisi tälläisiä kuin kirjassa kerrotaan, lehmillä olisi huomattavasti paremmat oltavat kuin tämän maailman tehotuotantotiloilla.
Tiedänkö nyt enemmän lehmien sielunelämästä? No en kauheasti.
2,5/5
Tiedänkö nyt enemmän lehmien sielunelämästä? No en kauheasti.
2,5/5
boring and also lowkey annoying and also how can you get so very close to the point (“animals are smart, caring and all around similar to humans”) without hitting it (“and thus we maybe shouldn’t eat them since we don’t have to”) but pretty
This is a cute little book detailing one farmers observations of behaviour of her herd of cows. It talks about the importance of non-intensive farming methods and is filled with anecdotes about how cows (and pigs, hens and sheep) interact with each other and communicate with humans. Very twee quick read but leaves a few things to think about regarding choices made in the supermarket when buying food.
Young starts the book by mentioning that most books have chapters but her thoughts flow from one thing to another, not necessarily into categories. What she doesn't recognize is that this is how most people think. However, most people don't write books. Writing requires work - organizing thoughts, framing anecdotes, etc. I have no doubt that if Young did this, she would have a good book on her hands. Unfortunately this book does not do that, and is subject to rampant unexplained anthropomorphism that could have and should have been framed in a more self-reflective way.
Some really lovely musings and anecdotes on cows' behaviour that touches on things like playing, mourning, protecting, rule-breaking, loving, and helping. There are also a few breaks where the author writes about other farm animals such as sheep and horses, but the real show-stealers were the chickens. Now (even though I have never been able to hack picking up a chicken) I find myself wanting a little flock of them, just to hear them chirp and watch them dustbathe in the sun.
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I had 2 main issues with this book: 1) It doesn't seem to recognise that animals can be intelligent in their own way. It shapes cows into the mould of human intelligence, which gives it this overwhelming feeling of being nothing but an adult fairytale bed time story. It's often noted that cows "say" things to each other or to humans, and while there's no doubt that cows communicate verbally and non-verbally in their own way, there is no way to tell if the cows in the corner are in fact having a natter about the weather, which this book claims they do. I suppose this was a technique to facilitate readers who need to view animals through a human lens to empathise with them, but for me, it ruined the authenticity and integrity of the anecdotes.
2) This book briefly recounts the horrors of battery farming, and other undesirable non-organic farming procedures. But presumably this is still a farm that culls most of its male calves, and the author doesn't reference it at all. I think it would be far more respectable to at least touch on the proccess of slaughter at this farm, make the case, rather than attempt to distract the reader with charming, fluffy anecdotes about cows; it felt as though the author believed that if it simply wasn't pointed out, the silly readers would never pick up on it.
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I had 2 main issues with this book: 1) It doesn't seem to recognise that animals can be intelligent in their own way. It shapes cows into the mould of human intelligence, which gives it this overwhelming feeling of being nothing but an adult fairytale bed time story. It's often noted that cows "say" things to each other or to humans, and while there's no doubt that cows communicate verbally and non-verbally in their own way, there is no way to tell if the cows in the corner are in fact having a natter about the weather, which this book claims they do. I suppose this was a technique to facilitate readers who need to view animals through a human lens to empathise with them, but for me, it ruined the authenticity and integrity of the anecdotes.
2) This book briefly recounts the horrors of battery farming, and other undesirable non-organic farming procedures. But presumably this is still a farm that culls most of its male calves, and the author doesn't reference it at all. I think it would be far more respectable to at least touch on the proccess of slaughter at this farm, make the case, rather than attempt to distract the reader with charming, fluffy anecdotes about cows; it felt as though the author believed that if it simply wasn't pointed out, the silly readers would never pick up on it.
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