I feel like a lot of people would benefit from knowing the cost behind meat production. I eat meat, but growing up on a farm in the "old days" when you could still do this soft of thing, I have witnessed a pig being killed by literally stabbing it in the neck through the artery and waiting until it bleeds out, and then gutting it within minutes after death while the flesh is still warm. The whole process made you very aware of what goes into making a sausage or a porkchop and appreciate it a lot more, and nowadays I get upset about wasting food in general.
http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/index.htm
If you can look past the garish design of the site, it's great reading.
Can't recommend it enough.
Hindmarsh himself spent some of his youth in the hippie homestead/commune at Golden Bay, and that perspective really helps illuminate how these people chose to live.
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It was fascinating reading, describing how the wild pigs on the island would eat his freshly planted vegetable garden and how he hid up a tree at night until they showed up before leaping down to kill one of them. Also the regret he felt after killing the animal.
At one point he pulled a muscle in his back and just by chance someone landed on the island a day later and helped nurse him back to health.
I've Googled for it now and again but never been able to find the original side (I read the story around 2008).