Cows

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I’m going to do my best to stay spoiler free, but I wanted to just say – this is a book that if you need any sort of trigger warning, you’ll not make it very far into it. I’m perfectly happy accepting that cows communicate with each other, of course they do, like all animals do! I think that to make headway on this problem of extreme subject matter (or images) it is necessary to distinguish these, and probably others, and consider them one by one. Look, you peddler of small-press filth, you can symbolise that and symbolise this but what we see is a whole lot of appalling violence against cows!

Despite its relatively minor length, reading it in one sitting might have you not leaving your shower for the rest of the day, and spreading it out over a week is kind of like staring at the sun. The cows know, as Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, “Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others.COWS’ has become a cult classic, much in the way ‘A Serbian Tale’ has for the movie watching community.

It’s awkwardly constructed; its inner monologues and dialogues are seldom persuasive; it doesn’t respond to the last fifty years of fiction except in glancing allusions to some other extremist authors; and its writing is often mechanical. It’s a moment of responsibility when Connell needs to prove to himself and his father that he is capable of managing the farm his family has owned for 30 years. It’s pretty simplistic to see this guy’s novel either as a cry of protest against modern urban debovinisation or on the other hand as an Eating Animals Safran Foer- style polemic. There is an apathy and numbness in even the most privileged of us that drives us to further instant dopamine hits from our social media and from our fentanyl-laced heroin. My copy of this book is heading immediately to my compost pile, since it is nothing but male cow manure.It's not the typical farm we know, but the more sustainable and organic farm, like there need to be more of that.

I was excited to read this because I thought it would give information about the intelligence of cows but I found that this felt like Rosamund just taking notes of the day-to-day happenings on her farm, with the odd preachy section dotted throughout.However, I found it a bit off-putting when Young would say something about cows “consulting” or “discussing the weather”. I’m not sure if it was because they wanted to see my thoughts on it or if they wanted to know if I had the fortitude to dive past the garbage that floated at the top of the water and see the story that lay on the ocean floor, but either way, I finally realized I wanted to dive in and truthfully, while this book is DEFINITELY not for everyone, I was stunned with the story Stokoe delivered. in qualche modo devono produrre reddito, meglio allevate in maniera umana in pascolo che in stalle lager, ma glissare su quel particolare mi sembra un po' furbetto. Some will come and ask humans for help with things they know they can't do themselves; others will just assume the humans know what's wrong and will put things to rights eventually. Biraz da bilimsellik ve ‘bakın inekler nasıl da karekterli hayvanlar’ ın altını çizmek için de kasmışta kasmış.