Taking Stock (eBook)

A Journey Among Cows

Roger Morgan-Grenville (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
304 Seiten
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-78578-842-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Autor

Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier from 1978-86. In 2007, he helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes, and in 2020 he was a founding member of the conservation charity, Curlew Action. His earlier titles, Liquid Gold, Shearwater, Taking Stock and Across a Waking Land are also published by Icon. He lives in West Sussex.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Bee Wilson • books on cattle • Burger King • Cow book • cow leather • Cow Milk • Cows • Daily Mail • farming • Fast Food • George Monbiot • grass-fed nation • Hamburger • Jay Rayner • Jeremy Clarkson Clarkson's farm • John Connell • McDonald's' • Michael Pollan food rules • Natural History • organic • Recipe • Regenerative Farming • Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet • Roger Morgan-Grenville • Rosamund Young Secret Life of Cows • taking stock • The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm
• ISBN-10: 1-78578-842-6 / 1785788426
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78578-842-0 / 9781785788420