{"product_id":"taking-stock","title":"Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart history, part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century, \u003ci\u003eTaking Stock\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to think carefully about what we eat, and to let nature back into food production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Morgan-Grenville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a soldier from 1978-86 and later helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes. He is also the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShearwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2021), both published by Icon. He lives in Petworth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"No cow could ever hope for a better appreciation of its truly unique worth.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-- Betty Fussell, James Beard Award winner for Magazine Feature Writing and author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of Corn and Raising Steaks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book\"\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003cstrong\u003eROSAMUND YOUNG, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Cows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54534712951094,"sku":"9781785788413","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/2301\/7526\/files\/imageloader_d357657b-1a43-46fd-90f4-60769645e3ee.jpg?v=1788990744","url":"https:\/\/www.summerbeambooks.com\/products\/taking-stock","provider":"Summer Beam Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}