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• As a meat-eater, I've long found it convenient to categorise veganism as a response to animal suffering or a health fad. But, faced with these figures, it now seems plain that it's the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue. We stuff ourselves, and the poor get stuffed.
  • George Monbiot, environmental journalist and commentator. http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,865087,00.html
• "My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan."
  • Carl Lewis, retired American track and field olympic athlete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOTETXwfIaY