A dairy cow's predicament: CINNAMON understands--#govegan #animalrights #amreading
- Janet Mason
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Recently, I was watching a vegan podcast that covered the response to Billie Eilish's comments that you can't eat meat and claim to love animals. I was surprised to hear so many young people on social media being so defensive and saying that "vegans think they're better than everybody." For the record, I don't think I'm better than anyone. I think I'm lucky. I came to veganism at sixty--late, because of a health issue, and shortly after experienced a consciousness-raising about the ethical issues (the rights of the animals and of the planet). I used to wish that I had gone vegan earlier (which I still do) but given the amount of brainwashing we receive from the powers that be (so far) and the general level of defensiveness, I'm so grateful that I became vegan when I did. It's given me a new lease on life.
I thought I'd post a short excerpt from my novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom, published by Adelaide Books in New York and Lisbon, in which Cinnamon, the dairy cow, contemplates the predicament that she is in.
“Don’t be silly. There’s always a pecking order – even among cows,”
Spice replied. “Not to mention the fact that we used to be money.”
“Be money! Us!?” I could barely contain my curiosity.
She looked at me coolly and chewed her cud.
“I meant what I said,” she said finally. “An old cow told me that in
ancient times the kings valued their worth on how many cows they
owned. They even invaded other lands and took the cows as their own.
Haven’t you ever heard the expression ‘a cash cow’?”
I shook my head.
“I never heard of such an expression. It sounds ridiculous. We don’t
exist to make some king wealthy.”
CINNAMON, my most recent novel, is available on amazon.com: Cinnamon: A dairy cow’s (and her farmer’s) path to freedom: Mason, Janet: 9781958419786: Amazon.com: Books
CINNAMON is also available through your local bookstore and library
(ask them to order it if they don’t have it).
For more information on my novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders published by Adelaide Books, click here.
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For more information on my most recent novel , Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage, click here.
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