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amylase1 's review for:
The Secret Life of Cows
by Rosamund Young
Some sweet and sometimes amusing anecdotes about cows and other farm animals. Talks about how the cows are essentially given free reign and choice about what they do on the farm which is all very nice but then in passing mentions a cow who was impregnated by IVF (like the cow had any choice in the matter).
A few alarm bells rang at the mention of homeopathy and the way some tales were presented skirted around the fact that these animals were being slaughtered and felt misleading (one of the only times the age of a cow was mentioned was one that was 20 years old but most of their cows will have been slaughtered probably by the time they were 2 which isn’t mentioned). Overall it was obvious how much this family of farmers really cares about their animals and I do hope this book might convince some meat eaters to either be more selective about the meat they consume (which appears to be an aim of this book) or just stop harming animals altogether. This book has certainly confirmed to me that I could never consider eating one of these sweet animals (or hens, sheep, pigs also mentioned)!
A few alarm bells rang at the mention of homeopathy and the way some tales were presented skirted around the fact that these animals were being slaughtered and felt misleading (one of the only times the age of a cow was mentioned was one that was 20 years old but most of their cows will have been slaughtered probably by the time they were 2 which isn’t mentioned). Overall it was obvious how much this family of farmers really cares about their animals and I do hope this book might convince some meat eaters to either be more selective about the meat they consume (which appears to be an aim of this book) or just stop harming animals altogether. This book has certainly confirmed to me that I could never consider eating one of these sweet animals (or hens, sheep, pigs also mentioned)!