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It’s a Cow’s Life (2002)
Meet Lulu, a Limousin Holstein
cross calf. She’s born on a farm in Cumbria where farmers find it tough
to make ends meet.
Meet the Shaw family. They’ve
struggled long enough and are selling their farm. Their problem is that
the prices for land and animals are simply getting too low.
Lulu is destined to be beef
from day one. Tony Shaw sells Lulu on to the Ibbotsen family in
Derbyshire. They also are struggling. Trevor’s family have been on the
farm since the Domesday Book, but feel that they’re on the slippery
slope to penury.
Then Foot and Mouth Disease
breaks out.
A troubled and timely tale,
told through the life of Lulu, It’s a Cow’s Life is an
innovative perspective on the travails of modern farming.
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