From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines.
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