Meet Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2017
- Rosamund Young is a farmer and author of The Secret Life of Cows. Here she shows us around Kite's Nest Farm, and we meet the cows, sheep and chickens she keeps.
Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand, vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive. Although much of a cow's day is spent eating, they always find time for extra-curricular activities such as babysitting, playing hide and seek, blackberry-picking or fighting a tree. The Secret Life of Cows is an affectionate record of a hitherto secret world.
WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT
'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life.
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I just LOVED your book, it's pure magic!
I just finished reading the book and for the first time in my life i came to understand cows and other animals. i always loved sheep and thought they liked me. Now i know they do like me.
Your book make me happy
I'm vegetarian and very much liked her book. She sees the animals for who they are. If people are going to eat meat (and, let's face it, they are going to) I think it's much better that its done this way. It's far superior to a massive commercial enterprise where the animals are hulled up in buildings and never see the light of day, with sores all over their bodies, deprived of any joy of living.
It would be great if people didn't eat meat but harpooning this lady is not going to change that. Change is slow. First, one must recognize that these animals are individuals, she does that & actively champions their rights and welfare. She's not our enemy.
I read your book some years ago, and greatly appreciated your noticing of and writing about the personalities and individualism of the cows you farmed.. In many ways a lovely and fascinating book that I’m glad I read. I follow a Vegan diet because I can’t bear that even these lucky cows are still commodities at the end and f the day, and will be killed off at a slaughter house at some point and they will probably feel anxiety, fear or even terror beforehand. Smell the death around the place. I can’t be part of that.
That was I was thinking too Carey. Seperation on the way to slaughter and then the fear and smell of blood at the slaughter house is difficult to watch
Rosemount young
Thank you so much for sharing...
It's Christmas day
My son and his wife bought me your book
The secret life of cows
We live in a very rural area
I talk to the cows
I have seen them display individually...
On my woodland walks I talk to all nature
Thank you for your book
And enriching my life
Namaste 🙏
I indeed... Love our animals
I hope
picked up the book from library shelf on chance and absolutely loved it! just a dusting of anthropomorphism - and the rest just what Martin Buber called Begegnung; Moreno, who developed Psychodrama would have understood it as well!
also it took me back when I, daughter of townies spent a summer hol next to cows and sensed them... only could not fathom ...
I'm reading the book. she doesn't seem to mention anything about slaughter... It is a bit weird. She covers their whole life but not that one important part. She just mentions they kill them in the farm... but how? Who kills them? Her? The husband? The brother? Is she avoiding the topic because it hurts? Maybe she doesn't want people to start feeling pity for the animals they eat? At the end of the day, she couldn't have this life it if wasn't for the business of selling their chopped-up bodies. Maybe I just didn't read the slaughter's part yet.... But it would be weird to read about slaughters, after all these deep cow-life anecdotes where they seem to act and reason in many ways like humans. This book is getting me very confused 😅
I'm reading the book in Dutch. I got it as a gift. I don't eat meat and I'm ditching dairy and all that crap from now on too. The beginning is really hard to read. I totally agree with her how bad the business is. How horrible it is. But speaking with so much love of her animals how can you actually sell the meat of your on animals. It really doesn't rhime to me at all. I love you the story's but it still find it sad that they can't live a free live and die a normal death.
prima donna
Watch the film 'Dominion' and see the Truth of this business.
If cows did live in nature, wild that is, then the only cows you’d see would be in a zoo, if you’d go to one...
@Experimental Account of course they’re not free, don’t be ridiculous. Dairy industry cows couldn’t be free. You believe they would prefer what you call a quick and painless (fear free?) death if you want to, but
don’t expect us all to believe that
Why send them to the slaughter? Go plant based
Is it particular breed of cow or ALL cows I wonder
You recognize their individuality, sensitivity and love for one another, yet murder them. And wrote a book about it?
Would you prefer that she treat them badly before they are killed? If I'm going to eat meat, I prefer that it had a good life.
I thought the same. This is an new level of ignorance and abuse 😤
@Juba - يوبا - ⵊⵓⴱⴰ I've never needlessly killed anyone.
Phrase your question better.
@@ProIdealDual Giving them the best possible life is abuse?
What do you think of a normal factory farm?
@Juba - يوبا - ⵊⵓⴱⴰ "You say you love eating flesh".
Look, I'd love to have a rational argument with you, we both might learn something, I might change my mind.
But if you're going to claim that I said things that I didn't say, I can't trust you to have an honest discussion.
She loves her cows so much and can see how individual they are but she still routinely murders them? How does that even make sense?
She most likely realises that the cattle wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for her or her industry.
Alex Green So the cows should be grateful to her..? I think she's a hypocrite who's only after money. If she really cared about animal welfare then she wouldn't send them to be killed.
If she didn't do that, she wouldn't be able to afford to keep any cattle whatsoever.
Tracey Allen no we don't. We need to end animal agriculture. There is no compassionate way to raise something to murder. I would never ship my dog off to the slaughter house the way she does her animals.
I wouldn't be so short sighted, Violet. Ending animal agriculture would wipe out cattle to the point of extinction.
She treats her cows well. But they have all been dehorned, a painful procedure for the cow.
There is a disconnect in the author's brain. How can she show love and appreciation for the cows and sheep, then take them to the slaughterhouse to be hung up, bled, split open, and disemboweled? This is common among cattle ranchers who boast about how much they love cattle and then send them off to be killed in the most brutal way imaginable. Cows and sheep are sentient beings just like humans. They have awareness. They feel pain just as we do. They are caring and loving. There is something psychopathic about all this. If a person raised a pup in loving care until adulthood then one day slaughters it for dinner what would our reaction be?
This lady is a beef seller. Period.