Yikes. I think I'll be thinking about this, honestly, forever. This should be "so you want to go vegan?" required reading. I felt myself experiencing life through the lens of this hypothesis; why do we eat meat, why hunt, what's the difference between livestock and a single cow? This was (and I hesitate to use this phrase): revolutionary. It revolutionized my thinking about "meat". I don't know if I'll change my behavior but my thinking has been forever changed by this book. I enjoyed the writing style and tone; If there was a translation (the setting is vaguely European with a cast of German and Spanish characters), it was not distracting. Sometimes with Japanese translations, the version will be much too British but this was Continental. I don't think I anticipated that ending specifically but I knew the situation was too tenuous to continue. All the same, I think it was abrupt. This book also made me Google Dr. Mengele, so thanks for that nightmare!