my_year_of_meats andru235 by Ruth L. Ozeki it is book that is funny, humorous and light, despite some dark undertones it's not only an enjoyable book: it will leave you wondering about the meat you eat and you will go and research if it is true that cows are fed cement and feces and after you find this disgusting fact is true, you will (if you have any empathy in you) cry and cry, because cows are NICE and if you are going to eat them AT LEAST LET THEM LIVE DECENTLY not in stalls where they have no room to move and are fed feces and wait till you learn about pigs if you are callous and hard-hearted you probably didn't read this far 050307 ... misstree is drunk again i am callous and hard-hearted i read that far i have little enough sympathy with most of the farm-raised animals that i really don't care, and i got over the feces content in chicken meat when i was 12. i feel a little bad for pigs, but there's enough suffering in the world that i believe you have to focus what you give a shit about or you'll spend your own life and your own passions on everyone else. 050307 ... Christine Your approach is interesting 050307 ... stork daddy i think i will read it. but first i'm going to go eat a double-quarter pounder while the act still retains some modicum of innocence. because knowing better, and knowing you should know better are two different things. if only we lived in a world where there were these creatures that asked to be eaten, that enjoyed nothing better than to be delicious at breakfast and lunch and dinner. 050308 ... andru235 it isn't that i protest eating meat; it's that: if we are what we eat, and we eat a deer that rand through the forest living freely, we injest that energy and if we eat an animal that was imprisoned in a 5 x 5 cell for its whole life, then we injest /that/ energy instead do what you will; as if i had influence! 050308 ... stork daddy nature in the barest of births, bestows upon most animals enough healthful energy to sustain us even allowing our torturing a good portion of it away. but i think you misunderstand me. whether or not there were health concerns, which i think there are, i find it cruel to chain up an animal that would on its own not limit itself in such a way, even if its experience of frustration is not as rich as ours would be. 050308 ... jane january: filet mignon february: meatloaf march: pork chops april: duck may: basil chicken june: roast beef july: salami sub august: hamburgers september: bologna sandwich october: bratwurst november: roasted turkey december: honey ham 050315 what's it to you? who go blather from