I cannot stand meat or anything that comes from animals.
Oh, so you're a vegan?
I am an ethical vegan. That means I oppose eating meat and using animals for any reason.
That's interesting, so you follow that rule in every aspect of your life?
Yes. I do my best. The good thing about well thought out vegan diets is they reduce the risk of some kinds of chronic disease such as heart disease.
Oh I didn't know that, I tried eating vegan before but came back to eating meat.
, New Zealand Ministry of Health, Harvard Medical School, and the British Dietetic Association. The German Society for Nutrition does not recommend vegan diets for children or adolescents, or during pregnancy and breastfeeding. In preliminary clinical research, vegan diets lowered the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and ischemic heart disease. Vegan diets tend to be higher in dietary fiber, magnesium, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, and phytochemicals; and lower in dietary energy, saturated fat, cholesterol
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Greenwald is a vegan and has appeared in at least two ads for PETA. He told PETA his reasons for going vegan: "In college I stopped eating red meat on a bet with my girlfriend at the time. She bet she could stop smoking, and I bet that I could stop eating red meat. She started smoking again, so I won, which I'm always proud of.…I had been a vegetarian as a child for whatever reason. I guess kids sometimes follow their instincts…My friend