Pretty non-eventful Shavuos. Read a little bit about Shmitta, which was good, because this coming year is a Shmitta year, and I know very, very little about it. Unfortunately, I only read a very little bit, because it seemed easier to read a book by Jonathan Safran Foer in the afternoon. I hadn't heard of it before, and I very much enjoyed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and I thought Everything is Illuminated was also okay.
Eating Animals, on the other hand... I mean, I knew what sort of a book it was before I started. And before reading the book, I was vaguely aware of bunch of the things Foer discusses. But to actually look at animal factory-farming is, shall we say, less than pleasant.
All afternoon, Aunty Em and her daughters kept warning me that everyone who read it became vegetarian. I kept saying it won't be an issue. But now I'm wondering where I can get humanely produced eggs, because I don't know how I can bring myself to use standard ones.
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