brush and love your cow
Posted by yes-I on April 10, 2009
we’ve been doing small-scale dairy with a few farmers in our area for a couple of years now
what a joy and a blessing it has been to get to work with these animals. cows in particular are the most wonderful companions and friends.
one thing i didn’t expect about working with livestock was how dynamic of a relationship it can be. to the individual animals and to the herd one’s relationship changes and evolves each day
pretty little highland
with a family cow or on a small dairy, brushing each cow and spending time with her before milking is a big part of this relationship. our biodynamic preceptor, the great Manfred Klett, really emphasizes the importance of taking the necessary time to meet this need of the cow
decided today to work on creating a small educational experience, “Brush and Love Your Cow”, which will give us a chance to really research the subject as well as we can, also to then share it with others
if there are any cows in your area that are used to being handled, visit ‘em and see if Gandhi wasn’t right !
“…The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. She pleads before us on behalf of the whole of the sub-human species for justice to it at the hands of man, the first among all that lives. She seems to speak to us through her eyes: ‘you are not appointed over us to kill us and eat our flesh or otherwise ill-treat us, but to be our friend and guardian’.
“The ancient seer, whoever he was, began with the cow. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forcible because it is speechless …“
Yes, Hug a Cow Today!
see?
