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Human Parts

Meredith Kirby

Nov 18, 2019

9 min read

How I Changed My Mind

Why I Started Eating Meat Again After 17 Years of Vegetarianism

The health and ethics of eating are complex

chicken in cage — Photo: Idella Maeland/Unsplash

I became a vegetarian when I was eight years old, about three months before my ninth birthday.

I had been reading an article about vegetarianism in American Girl magazine, a periodical often…

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