Perhaps another topic could be started by anyone who wishes to discuss walking through livestock and leave this one available for those who wish to pay their respects to the loss of a life.
I would agree with this if it was a book of remembrance that the OP was asking for. Too often we get links without comment from an OP, so those commenting are blindly trying to join into a discussion without direction, not in this topic.
Todays news. I'm not going to go into it too much as its a friend of a friend. However I appreciate farmers have to graze livestock but its about time ROW were made safe with electric fencing to keep cows away from walkers. I dont trust cows and my family had dairy farms.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/richmond-school-teacher-killed-cows-while-walking-his-dogs-2980002
But that does not seem to be the OP's purpose for posting the link to yet another tragic event. The article
I posted, from the British farmer suggests more than electric fences, but shouldn't we as walkers allow our opinions be heard in open forum. There are many silent watchers and perhaps our opinions may go further. The British Farmer's article is
a sad indictment of too little far too late. I first heard the warning signals at an Agricultural show in the 1970's, from cattle stewards, when it was my job to organize the all livestock parade in the main ring. Even then we were expected to recognize safety procedures.
Recently I met a farmer I knew from college days, he was doing community service, because as landowner, he was found jointly responsible for a fatal accident to a contractors employee. It was the NFU that managed to keep him out of prison not the CLA. Landowners repeatedly fail to own up to the reasons we have to have Rights of Way to access our countryside, it is because of their historical and repeated opposition to sharing the countryside.
If the head was made to take responsibility for it's tail, perhaps some meaningful safety protocols might be the result.