This is a very interesting book, and I liked the listen.  It goes into depth about the raising and slaughter of animals.  Factory farming vs. pasture farming.  How factory farming is pushing out any pasture farming they can.  It makes me think more about the mindfulness proposed by the Buddhist books i’ve been listening to.  This book is all about the mindfulness of eating.  It makes complete sense about how Buddhists have a strict vegetarian diet.  This is something that I’d like to be more mindful about, but it will be hard.  The book also makes a note about how the social nature of eating can make it hard to start doing anything mindful about eating.  If you say that you are not eating anything that comes from a factory farm, then people will have no idea how to meet your eating requirements.  If you simply say you are vegetarian then people will know how to meet your culinary requirements.  On the same point that it is hard to be around people and eat mindfully, it will make other people around you eat more mindfully if you do so.  The social impacts of the eating go both ways, and can have a critical mass.

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