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    Holy Cow

    By Darla Jasmine

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    A hip, big-breasted messiah, who just happens to be a wise and enigmatic dairy cow with healing milk, materializes in a suburban intersection. When this sacred cow calls together her apostles—some human, some Holstein—they launch a ragtag interspecies revolution to overturn the factory farm system and awaken all earthlings to their interconnection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJupiter Gardens Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2012
    ISBN9780984897025
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    • 4/5
      I had a hard time getting into this book at first - probably because in the first chapter, the author introduced us to a talking cow. Didn't seem like something I'd be interested in. Sat down with it again mostly out of a feeling of guilt - after all, I requested this book as an Early Reviewer, so I felt a duty to slog through as much of it as possible so that I could write a coherent review.Much to my surprise, I really enjoyed this book! I am NOT a vegan, or even a vegetarian. In fact, I grew up on a dairy farm (not one of the large factory farms described in the book, but a small, family-owned farm where the cows actually have names). I am not opposed to consuming animal products. However, Holy Cow really did make me think twice about what it means to use animals for food - whether we're eating them or consuming their milk. I must say, this book makes me THINK more about where my food is coming from! But happily it does this in an easy-to-swallow way, by blending together fictional tales told from different points of view.The chapter setup was a bit confusing at first - I wondered if this would turn out to be a series of short stories rather than a cohesive novel. However, after a few chapters it was easy to see that all of the characters, and their stories, would eventually converge. Yes, the whole thing is a bit fantastic - after all, characters in the book have visions of talking cows! - but Darla Jasmine does a good job of balancing information with humor and heart.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't sure what to expect. I ended up really liking this book alot and it really made me spend some time soul searching again about reconsidering the vegan lifestyle that I abandoned. I would recommend everyone to read this fable. Easy read, short read, but very thought provoking! Good job, Darla!
    • 3/5
      I really wanted to like this book. Now, I did like it...just not as much as I had hoped I would. Being a vegan already, I do certainly agree with most of the book that ending the factory farms can potentially change our society as a whole. But, I felt that the author would be heading to a strong point, then suddenly back off and take an easier route away. I also sometimes got the impression that the author had trouble making up her mind about whether animal use was essential to culture and society or whether we abolish their exploitation all together. Over all, I will probably recommend it to a couple of my veg friends, but not many others.
    • 2/5
      An inventive little tale with a more than obvious agenda, Holy Cow attacks outright the evils of factory farming as it applies to animal husbandry. Granted, factory farming is an unpleasant side-effect of profit-based food production and should be ended as quickly as possible. But given a secondary push in this story is the implication that a vegetarian diet will solve the evils of the world, with veganism ranking even higher on the scale of moral dietary virtue. This particular warm fuzzy - that a plant-based diet is the natural and unquestioned destiny of humankind - ignores a host of environmental and rather apocalyptic problems that must be dealt with before any such solution can be considered. The reader is advised to at least look into Lierre Keith's work on the subject, "The Myth of Vegetarianism," for a discussion of not only these problems, but the apparent nutritional shortcomings of a strictly plant-based diet. Otherwise, mildly entertaining, a fanciful read.
    • 3/5
      Holy Cow by Darla JasmineThis is not a genre I am familiar with,  but I was intrigued by the book's description and happy to win it from LibraryThing. In fact I don't even know what genre it falls in!  It sounded like Animal Farm revisited or something, and I've been reading a lot about revolution lately, so I went for it.  I had a weird response to this book.  On the one hand, I couldn't put it down.  On the other hand, I don't know that I would recommend it  to just anyone.  It tells the story of revolting animals and people, including their interaction.  One thing that kept me reading was that the author really nailed a description of the discontent that so many people seem to feel in today's consumer society.  She perfectly describes the attempts many people see to make today to feel fulfilled, loved, necessary, or even just SEEN, the attempt to fill that emptiness with food, possessions, drugs, etc.For me tho, the really intriguing part was that I was coincidentally simultaneously reading From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp.  Sharp's book has been described as the Bible on non-violence that was used successfully by Serbians and Egyptians.  These two books came together for me as if Jasmine was using Sharp's work to flesh out a fictional revolution.  Many issues were addressed in both books, such as the question of whether or not an outsider, a foreigner, can help an oppressed population.  Also addressed is the issue of leaving those behind who do not want to participate, even when you know it will probably result in their death.So why do I say I really like this book but only want to give it 3 out of 5 stars?  I think just because it doesn't seem that original to me. But IF you are interested in revolution and social justice, go for it!
    • 2/5
      Holy Cow is a cute but rather uninspiring parable about factory farms, animal rights, and enlightenment. I'm a staunch vegan. But, I found the message of the book to be conflicting and kind of wishy-washy. She has her heart in the right place, but I wasn't sure by reading this if Jasmine is advocating veganism or saying that milk and cows are a sacred part of man's diet.The overwhelming message is one of searching for enlightenment, for all creatures both two and four legged. It's a message of compassion and ending suffering. How Cow is just not a very enlightened storyline.
    • 3/5
      This is a novel about the evils factory farming, and the journey of 'awakening' taken by several people as they come to realize the injustice of the industrialized food system. This story is told by the people in question, and interestingly, by a few rather more than usually self-aware cows, which is concieved and executed much more credibly than you might think. I am ALL for this. I've been vegetarian for over 15 years for many of the same reasons. However, as much as I admire this novel's goals, I can't say it succeeds. After a strong, engaging beginning, Jasmine begins to get a little too fanciful, too new-agey, too religious. A semi-mystical cow who communicates a sort of enlightenment to human and bovine alike I can go with. A "bovine bhodisattva" goes a little to far. Healing "miracle milk" from divinely inspired cows and an explicit evocation of Christ? That's when the author starts to lose me. I don't know if the term 'heavy-handed'; can actually applied to overuse of new agism, but it comes pretty close. It's a shame, because this book has an important message that gets lost.