If you have eaten today, as I have, be you vegetarian or vegan or what, a good number of living things of the world have died to keep you and me alive. Do the math on how many things have died to keep you and those you love alive through the course of your uneven, striving, care-worn lives—not just the things you have eaten, but all the consumption that has occurred in the name of delivering to you what you usually think of as the basic entitlement of living here and now, and all the consumption done in your pursuit of comfort—and you can have some feel for the enormity of how much a one-way
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