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I was surprised at the mediocre rating of this book. That was, until I started reading the comments. Let me say this: If you are vegan or vegetarian and are looking to read a story in which animals are rescued from mass-production and get to live out their remaining years on a quiet little farm, this is not the book for you. A work that all farmers have either read or believe they have. It contains humour and wisdom, and is worth it just for the section on “Drowners” – the men who managed river meadows with skill to produce early spring grazing. The best succeeded 10 days ahead of the rest. But it also explains the importance of sheep for a productive farm, and includes a first-hand account of ploughing virgin prairie grassland in Canada. Unlike other reviewers, I see this not so much as being saccharine cute or attempting to put human mentalities onto non-human animals but rather... The second of two volumes charting the emergence of organic farming from the 1920s to 1995. This system of food production depends on the fertility-building nature of grass, forage legumes like clover and the animals that graze them. Conford analyses the growing influence of food processing on standards and the rise of processed organic food, which purists still see as an oxymoron. The debate has real relevance for a society where diet-related disease threatens to undermine healthcare. At its simplest, it boils down to an argument about whether an “organic Mars bar” would symbolise ultimate success, or ultimate failure for a movement that set out to produce food that would make everyone more healthy.

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It is a short book and there is a lot of padding. Lists 20 points long, saying things like, 'cows nurse grudges, cows take umbrage, cows can be unpredictable, cows can be dependable" with similar lists for pigs, sheep and hens are just filler and don't impress. Det er ikke kun køernes intelligens, Young kommer omkring. Det er også deres sociale samvær, deres evne til at knytte bånd og drage omsorg for hinanden. Vi lærer, hvordan de kommunikerer på forskellig vis og om deres evne til at huske og genkende. Hun tilbyder kun få videnskabelige forklaringer, men bruger i stedet egne erfaringer og konkrete eksempler fra livet på gården til at bakke op om hendes teser omkring køers indre liv. De få konkrete fakta rammer dog som en knytnæve, når hun trækker på undersøgelser, der har kunne påvise indskrænkning af køers hjernekapacitet på baggrund af pladsmangel og forkert foder. A small classic.But while her book isgently humorous, it is not a spoof. Cows really are diverse characters with eventful inner lives… Drawing on decades of experience, Young hasa serious messageconcerning non-intensive, compassionate farming.” — Financial Times These books can be read as part of a themed-unit on cows, to supplement lowercase letter “c” (c is for cow) in the All About Reading Pre-Reading Program, or just for fun! 14 Amusing Books About Cows

Ralph the cow really wants his dad to buy him a bicycle but Ralph’s dad tells him no. Not until pigs fly. That begins Ralph’s mission to learn how to fly a helicopter so that he can bring some pigs onboard with him and get them to “fly”. It is a story of Ralph’s persistence as everyone continues to tell him that “cows don’t do that.” Does he get his bike in the end? You bet he does! Cows have near-panoramic vision, meaning they can see in almost every direction of a 360-degree circle. [5]I loved Rosamund Young’s The Secret Life of Cows. It’s apleafor us to appreciatethe complex inner lives of our inquisitive, loving, bovine friends,whom we arguably exploit more than any other creature on Earth—from what we wear on our feet, via our Sunday roast, to what we pour on our granola. It also makesthe great pointthat we should not judge animal intelligence in relation to our own.” —Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How to Stop Time

This book had one of our four-year-olds laughing hysterically. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her laugh so hard from listening to a story before. In the book, there is a cow who says “oink” and all the animals on the farm laugh at her but then she finds a pig who says “moo” and they teach each other their sounds. As they are learning, they mistakenly say the wrong sounds which makes the book even funnier. Cows do not have teeth on the upper front part of their mouths; they cut grass by pressing their bottom teeth against their hard top palate. [5]The book opens, rather charmingly I thought, with a cow family tree. This by no means covers every cow whom Young writes about, but it does give an idea of the number of generations who live on the farm. Some lovely details have been included here; for instance, Bonnet is 'passionate about apples', Blue Devil is 'remarkably bossy', and the Duke of York drinks water like a cat. There is a brief section at the end of the book which includes twenty facts which Young feels one should know about cows, hens, pigs, and sheep respectively.