How I learned to love being a vegetarian

Over the last week, Salon has featured a series of essays about our complex relationship with eating meat. Some of these pieces were written by meat-eaters who question their choices, and some authored by confused, troubled and temporarily lapsed vegetarians. In the letters section, though, accusations flew: Salon, evidently, was "funded by the meat industry" and hell-bent on "trying to turn vegetarians into meat eaters." The same question echoed throughout each thread: Why can't Salon publish an article about a content vegetarian for once?


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