Taking Stock

<p><b>'Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' <i>DAILY MAIL</i><br><br>'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><br><br><b>Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>For 10,000 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.<br><br>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> <p><b>'Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' <i>DAILY MAIL</i><br><br>'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><br><br><b>Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>For 10,000 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.<br><br>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>