I just picked up this book out of random curiosity. It's about eating meat, a little about cultural and historical reasons, but mostly about how meat is produced in the US today. It's not a case for vegetarianism, but it is a case against factory farms. (And for "family farms").

And I've got to say I'm appalled I won't go into details, but the writer has hardly one positive thing to say about factory farming, except maybe that the meat is cheap and plentiful.

I think conditions are better in Norway, but to be honest I don't know much about it. This book will have me checking closer, though. I'm comfortable with eating meat, but not with causing massive amounts of suffering for it, or a disproportionally large ecological footprint.

I don't want to start any flame wars here, but it seems there are a fair amount of vegetarians and some farmers here. Anyone read this book? Anyone have an opinion they'd like to voice? I'd be interested to hear the choices some of you have made.