Well, I haven't been able to eat ground beef since reading this, but that's pretty much the only long-term change this brought to my life. I'm not really bothered by the business practices it exposes, but that's probably because I already knew most of it. Yes, capitalists will do anything (or almost anything for the ethical few) to get to the top and stay there. And the reality is, I'm not as bothered by that as maybe I should be.
The book did, however, strengthen my vegetarian desires, which were already strong to begin with. I just find meat kind of gross and I feel sorry for the horrible conditions and deaths through which the animals suffer. This merely brought all of the images back to my current memory. I haven't completely stopped eating meat - though, like I said, ground beef is totally out of the question - but I have greatly cut back on my intake of meat (which was already pretty low anyway).
One of these days I've just got to take the final step of cutting all meat out. I did it for a while, but then I started craving meat after half a year or so. So maybe my current method of eating meat very rarely works well enough.
Anyway, I recommend the book. It's interesting and enlightening.
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