For years, many have thought of vegetarians as nuts, and regarded vegetarianism as simply sentimental, or at best a health choice. But now signs have popped up in mainstream media that perhaps this mentality is changing. In a recent piece for the program 60 Minutes, CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney wrote, “I’m not a vegetarian, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we came to a time in fifty or one hundred years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.” More of the same sentiment followed in readers’ comments.

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