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I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death. That did it, and I went plant-based instantly. Other people will eat only the flesh of free range animals that live on farms, where they are well treated and know a quick death.

— Jane Goodall

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