Taking Stock

<p><b>'Funny insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' <i>DAILY MAIL</i> <p/>'Tremendous ... We all need to take stock and this is the ideal starting point. I learnt a lot from this book and laughed a lot too.' ROSAMUND YOUNG author of <i>The Secret Life of Cows</i></b> <p/><b>Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.</b> <p/>So at the age of 61 with no farming experience he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book. <p/>For 10000 years cow and human lives have been intertwined. Cattle have existed alongside us fed and shod us quenched our thirst and provided a thousand other tiny services and yet most of us know little about them. We are also blissfully unaware of the de-natured lives we often ask them to lead. <p/>Part history part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century <i>Taking Stock</i> asks us to think carefully about what we eat and to let nature back into food production.</p>