[Main Blog Post] Cows Don't Know What's Best for Them

[jprussell]

Another week, another blog post.

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Secret Life of Cows

[dishwasher0101]

You might like to read the book 'The secret life of cows', by Rosamund Young, Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 9780571345793. It's kind of a memoir about a farm which gives the cows a lot of choice about where to go and so on. A lovely anedcote about a cow anxious about a birth seeking out human help. I think of it as another perspective to add in alongside Salatin's ideas about bunching stock on pasture, well worth a read. There are a lot of behaviours which make sense that never emerge to be observed if the environment which allows those behaviours is missing in some sense.

Re: Secret Life of Cows

[jprussell]

Thank you for this, that does sound like an excellent complement to Salatin's work!