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In no way am I an ethical person. The only charities I support are for underpriveleged animals. I thrive on chaos. And earn a living by exploiting the fear and stupidity of others.

However, I have been seriously thinking of cutting back my meat consumption, over the last few days.

Rosie gave me a book called Chicken Planet. It describes how unappetisingly mass produced chickens are kept, treated and slaughtered. Ignoring the ethical questions of cramming birds so tightly together that they can't spread their wings, the slaughtering process of dipping them in faecal soup just doesn't sound particularly appetising to me.

I also stumbled across a delicacy called lobster sashimi. Basically, the lobster is cut in half, and while the front half is still alive and writhes around, the diners get to eat its tail meat. That just seems a bit vile to me. Reminiscent of the old execution method of removing a victim's internal organs one at a time, keeping them alive long enough to see their beating heart being removed from their chest cavity. Very disturbing!