“Vanishingly little that you do with your life, or buy, or use, or move around in, doesn’t have a cow involved at some point, often many points.”
This book takes a hard look at what we eat, namely milk and beef, and how these foodstuffs come to our table. Both a history of the 10,000-year relationship between humans and cows, and a sharp critique of our treatment of bovines, Taking Stock asks us to recognize the value of cows and respect their nature.
“By placing ourselves above and apart from the nature that sustains us, we have too often turned our eyes away from the central role of food in our lives,” Roger Morgan-Grenville points out. “It could be so much better.”
