@manwithabook: there are games that are about the gameplay and the achievements and motivation, and then there are games that are about the feeling and the dreaming. You will not be satisfied if you play the latter like the former, and I don't think anyone should strive to make them alike.
The fact that you included a vegetarian mode makes me really happy. The world is really changing fast :) Wouldn't have thought this possible when I first played this game some years ago, that someone would request it that is.
Ingenious time waster. Employs a whole psychologists and marketers handbook of tricks to keep you hooked. If you start playing, it takes more will power to stop the longer you have played, because of the perceived investment on numerous levels. I am awestruck and frightened at the same time o.0