- Publisher: Icon
- Year: 2022
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 368pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 222x144mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781785788413
- Product code: 542381
Taking Stock
A Journey Among Cows
Roger Morgan-Grenville New Hardback
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Since the Neolithic, humans have domesticated cows, making them indispensable to our food economy. To understand them better, the former soldier and conservationist Roger Morgan-Grenville signed on as a cattle-farm labourer at the age of 61. Blending memoir and natural history, he examines the way cows have fed and clothed us, how we have treated them, and how, considering diet, welfare and ecology, we should do so in future.
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'Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' DAILY MAIL
'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 The Secret Life of Cows
Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.
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.
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.
Part history, part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century, Taking Stock asks us to think carefully about what we eat, and to let nature back into food production.
'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 The Secret Life of Cows
Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.
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.
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.
Part history, part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century, Taking Stock asks us to think carefully about what we eat, and to let nature back into food production.
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Since the Neolithic, humans have domesticated cows, making them indispensable to our food economy. To understand them better, the former soldier and conservationist Roger Morgan-Grenville signed on as a cattle-farm labourer at the age of 61. Blending memoir and natural history, he examines the way cows have fed and clothed us, how we have treated them, and how, considering diet, welfare and ecology, we should do so in future.
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