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CINNAMON the dairy cow on eating friends -- "It’s a shame, but I bet she tastes too good not to be eaten.” #amreading, #govegan #LGBTQ


I've posted a brief excerpt from my novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom (from Adelaide Books in New York and Lisbon). I was inspired to post this brief excerpt, which features a cow's take on bacon, because CINNAMON in this week's Sapphic book bingo (the link is below).


The excerpt is recorded below on YouTube, and the text is pasted below the video.





I’ve heard that humans like to eat pigs and call the strips of flesh

bacon but have never seen it before. I had just smelled it one morning

in the pasture when my cow friend from childhood remarked, “Oh, the

smell of bacon is particularly strong today.” Then she proceeded to tell

me what bacon was. When I looked horrified, she said simply, “Don’t

worry, I never heard of cows being turned into bacon.”

“As if that solves the problem,” I had retorted.

But my friend had already turned away and was headed to the bales

of hay. It did look sweet that day – all light and clean as if the baler had

picked it especially for us. But I didn’t join my friend. How could she

eat after what she just told me?

Don’t get me wrong. I was relieved that the human on the other side

of the window wasn’t eating a cow. After all, the strips of flesh could

come from us. I hadn’t heard of cow bacon, but that didn’t mean that

it didn’t exist. If people eat us in other ways – I’m sure it wouldn’t be

that hard to make bacon from us too. We’re not that different from

pigs, after all.

I’ve always been as self-absorbed as the next creature. It’s a cow-eat-

cow world. But how would the human like it, if I were to eat one

of her friends?!

“Well, there goes Martha,” she would say, maybe adding, “I never

liked her anyway.” Or perhaps she would say, “It’s a shame, but I bet

she tastes too good not to be eaten.”

Or maybe she would be outraged like me.



CINNAMON is also available through your local bookstore and library

(just 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.


To learn more about The Unicorn, The Mystery, click here:


For more information on my novel Loving Artemis, an endearing tale of revolution, love, and marriage, click here.



This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo post features books with a vegan or vegetarian main character. You can check out the page, here:




 
 
 

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