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Lunch break~
For January reading, I finished Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. This is the first and only self help book I have read so far, and I think it's pretty good :) ( spoiler? )
For January reading, I finished Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. This is the first and only self help book I have read so far, and I think it's pretty good :) ( spoiler? )
Seven Habits not all that boring and is a relatively fast read. Some concepts illustrated in the book help me to become less emo (haha), such as I am responsible for my emotions and I am happier not worrying about things I have no control of :p I would recommend the book.
I don't think I'd give up meat either. but factories that raise too many animal in confined area with improper diet makes me want to avoid their meat products. the fact that up to 70% factory raised cow died with disease because they were fed corn* (mixed with antibiotics and residue of other animals) make me feel sick... Similarly, crammed pigs bite each others tail and depressed ones don't fight back, which cause infection. Thus USDA recommends factories to cut off part of each pig's tail, so it will be sensitive to the point that even depressed pig will fight off others who chew on its tail. =\ There's practice of clipping chicken beak etc too.
*Equipped with powerful rumen, cow evolved to eat grass. so eating corn lowers their stomach PH dramatically and causes (sometimes deadly) heartburn. They even used to feed cow cow fats too, until the forced cannibalism resulted in mad cow disease... To keep these sick animals alive, factories load their food with anti-biotics... and a cow that used to take six years to grow up to a good size (a few decades ago, on natural diet) now takes thirteen months to get to the size... Everything just sounds sickening and unnatural =__=
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