With no prior agricultural experience, at the age of 61, he decided to work as a part-time labourer on a beef cattle farm to hear the other side of the tale. The end outcome is this poetic and moving novel. Cow and human lives have been entwined for 10,000 years. The majority of us know very little about cattle despite the fact that they have coexisted with us, fed and clothed us, satisfied our thirst, and offered a thousand other small services. Additionally, we are blissfully unconscious of the denatured lives we frequently demand of them. Taking Stock challenges us to consider what we eat carefully and to let nature take its course. It is a history, an adventure, and an unsentimental credo for how we should handle cows in the twenty-first century.