Great book on a harrowing topic

I really enjoyed this book. Harrowing topic but so worth knowing about. Only downside for me was that sometimes it felt there was too much going on and that sometimes not everything got a full explanation. But a nice narrative and I really appreciated the interviews with farmers and people against vegetarianism, just so that it was included and ultimately squashed!

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awful performance

Struggling to finish this, thought provoking but the performance is terrible. I'll get the book myself and read it at a adult's reading pace.

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Truly enlightening.

I loved this book. I had a rough, narrow view of the meat industry, and now I feel like I know so much more. This book persuaded me to become a vegetarian. I'm glad I know what is actually happening to these animals; these facts should be more widely known.

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U.S. Centric

Great insights and a wealth of information, but entirely US focussed. A great jumping board into the literature on factory farming, its impact on health, the environment, and pretty much everything else

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Learn the real price of eating animals

A must-read. Eating animals comes at a price. To us, the animals, the planet. The book provides an honest, measured and yet not sensationalised account of factory farming. It does not preach, it simply educates and helps to lift the vail of our ignorance about the food we eat.

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factory farms should be banned

its time to end our inhumane treatment of animals, for the sake of our appetite. there are far more healthy alternatives to meeting our caloric requirements than keeping animals in crowded and filthy cages, feeding them grains and antibiotics, and killing them

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Animals - A Commodity for Corporate Profit!

I've been listening to running books and ultra running books and some authors of touched on the subjects of vegan or plant based diets and there's been more publicity lately about the damage that intensive farming and fishing does to our planet. Having said that this book just put the tin hat on it for me. Come on... lets face it.. we all know it...when corporations get involved... or when things get to a level where it becomes corporate then u know that this is a well oiled machine focused on one thing - making as much money as possible.. shareholder return.. on the back of animals, birds and fish and applying the latest technologies and processes, wiping out all the traditional methods of farming, ruining the environment in the process... all in the name off efficiency and making more money. I haven't eaten meat or dairy since listening to this book.. about a week now. so what am i going to do about it now is the question for me?

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Interesting & insightful but sometimes too simple.

Full of eye opening information and moral perspectives that even I a long time vegan didn't know about, but this book often fails to grasp the connection between all of animal agriculture and negative impacts it has on our society.

Every level of animal agriculture is damaging to our health, our planet and the animals, whereas if you read this book you could be forgiven for thinking only factory farms were the problem which is simply not true.

Still it's a valuable book and I imagine would have an impact upon people new to the idea of vegetarianism or veganism.

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A very frustrating listen from a vegan perspective

The author appears to think being vegetarian is all he should do to avoid causing the suffering inherent in animal farming, yes even the small local family farms which he puts forward as the best possible example. This is just not the case. He barely mentions the immense suffering of egg laying hens and I don't think he talks about the cow's bred for their milk once.

Those animals suffer in ways which are even worse than the torture that 'meat animals' regularly go through before finding their way to your plate. The authors own arguments are for veganism, not vegetarianism and it is so frustrating to hear him slip at the final hurdle.

Hopefully he will rethink this in the future.

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