2. I remember when I was a boy
my mother always told me,
“Eat your vegetables, young man.”
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3. But, She doesn’t have to tell me anymore.
Now, I’ve learned to love them.
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8. Now that i’m older
I care about a lot of things.
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9. But, I’ve been exposed
to darker sides of reality.
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11. “According to Gerald Zirnstein, a
former Department of Agriculture
scientist, 70 percent of ground beef
sold in supermarkets contains pink
slime, a goo made out of waste
trimmings previously reserved for dog
food and cooking oil.”
- The Daily Beast (March 2012)
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12. “Methylmercury exposure is almost exclusively
through consumption of fish, shellfish, and
marine mammals.”
- US EPA (Dec 1997)
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14. “red meat is also linked to cancer,
especially to Colorectal Cancer,
and to...”
- The Daily Beast (March 2012)
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17. “Many studies have shown that
vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of
obesity, coronary heart disease (which
causes heart attack), high blood pressure,
diabetes mellitus and some forms of
cancer.”
- American Heart
Association
(January 2013)
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