Vegetarian Star

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When you tell some people you’re a vegetarian, they often reply with the snide remark, “See those teeth. Those are incisors. That means we were meant to eat meat.”

But in his book The Face on Your Plate, author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson debunks that myth, along with other reasons  that are used to rationalize meat eating.

We’re not that unique from animals, he says, as we share as much as 95% DNA with many of them.

Not to mention the devastating effects raising animals for food has on the planet and animal suffering just isn’t acceptable.

Then there are the diseases associated with a meat based diet.

B vitamins? Those come in supplements.

Masson grew  up with two vegetarian parents and flip flopped from vegetarian to meat eating, but is now a vegan.

He’s written several other books on the emotional lives of animals from pets like cats and dogs to farm animals.

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