"Frances Moore Lappé argues rightly that we should all work to eliminate hunger and protect the environment and that one important step we can each take is to become a vegetarian. … Frances Moore Lappé helped me to make the connection between justice, solidarity, and the life of nonviolence, and I quickly became a vegetarian."
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John Dear, Christianity and Vegetarianism: Pursuing the Nonviolence of Jesus (1990), published by PETA
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