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Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

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Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

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Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

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Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

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Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

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I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 21st, 1977

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