"I feel better, I look better, so it’s a big change for me. You have more clarity and I think that all of us want to be more clear. I wanted to look younger and feel better and wanted to be a greater contributor to the good on the planet The more I learned about factory farming… the more I realized that I could not, in good conscience, be a contributor to such violence."
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