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Tom Hodgkinson is the author of How to Be Idle, which is an awesome book on the pleasures of doing nothing. Nothingness is a wonderful state of being in which awesomeness becomes so light and fluffy that you find yourself devoid of all stress and pain.

Below is an excerpt from Tom's awesome online country diary. He's like E.B. White, only lazier (if that is possible).

Country Diary 72: Breaking the Law:

You are not allowed to kill and eat your own pigs. The law says that you have to take them to the slaughterhouse. This is, they say, so they can be checked by the slaughterhouse for disease. We argued that it is surely more humane to have them killed at home, because the pig does not suffer the stress of being bundled into a van and then lined up on the racks in an unfamiliar place and killed. He actually agreed that meat that has been killed at home, stress-free, tastes better than meat that has gone through the abattoir. So that is why our meat tasted so good: because it was killed at home. But that is illegal now. Our meat is illegal.

[Via: The Idler]

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