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HOW NOW, SAD COW?

s more people adopt plant-based diets for health or environmental reasons, or both, a new documentary suggests a third motivation: the belief that animals have souls. from English director Andrea Arnold follows the life of a cow on a Kent dairy farm for roughly four years. Arnold’s star, Luma, gives birth to a calf in the film’s opening: it pops out in a burst of slime, unsure what to make of its first minutes in the world even as our heroine licks it clean, preparing it for whatever might come next.

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