Taking Stock: a journey among cows

Prologue: the everywhere cow

Part I: Then

A prehistoric journey

Mankind's worst-ever decision

From the Bible to beef shorthorn

From Bakewell to Bismarck, North Dakota

Part 2: Now

The miracle of milk

From pasture to plate (and back again)

Vulnerable cow

The tragedy of the commons

Scapegoat cow

The cattle of a thousand hills

A time of gifts

The journey of a belt told backwards

Grass-fed cocw

Resurgent cow

Part 3: Tomorrow

A single rough poppy

Epilogue: a field in Devon.