Marc Bittman on The Human Cost of Animal Suffering

I was a strict vegetarian for 11 years, from the age of 20 until 31, because the thought of animal suffering on factory farms repulsed me and I wanted nothing to do with the perpetuation of it.

You have never read anything from me here on HGK about animal welfare, not because I don't care deeply about the issue, but because the reason I came back to not-eating-animals was not for the animals that I was saving. It was for my own health.

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