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i think it's really good for your health

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it's the right thing to do i mean you

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know there's no doubt about it there's

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so many reasons to be vegetarian you're

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vegan i think farming of animals should

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be

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more

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managed better people know how to cook

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better if they

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are vegetarians i've found to me you

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wouldn't miss meat when you've got a

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well-cooked vegetarian meal if we do a

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barbecue we have to have two different

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barbecues bbq

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personally i've seen so many fat

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vegetarians and they think they're

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healthy am i allowed to say this

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absolutely

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hello welcome to easy english i'd like

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to find out if any of the people i'm

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interviewing are vegetarian have tried

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going vegetarian have failed at being

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vegetarian or even planned to become

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here we go

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my daughter's a vegetarian oh really

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okay yeah and how old is your daughter

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well she's a past pastarian actually she

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eats fish okay and dairy products

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um she's 31.

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are you a vegetarian i'm not no i

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actually own a food business funnily

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enough

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and um

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no i'm not

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but i i

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usually when i go out i i choose i try

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and choose vegetarian options if i ever

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go out to eat yeah when i do eat meat

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because as part of my business i i i'm

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not my business isn't a vegetarian

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catering business i sell meat so i end

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up eating leftovers basically i'm not

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vegetarian myself i can see the

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advantages and disadvantages okay

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and i've studied some nutrition in the

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past but i'm not in any way an expert

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but um

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yeah i i wouldn't

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tell anyone they shouldn't do it but

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it's just not for me uh i personally i'm

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not vegetarian but um a lot of my

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friends are and i think it generally

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people could be more

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sort of

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experimental with eating vegetarian

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foods and with

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cutting out less meat in their diet

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either with having a meal or something

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it would be beneficial to the planet and

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everything

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in general my thoughts on vegetarianism

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is quite simple i'm not a vegetarian

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right but i've eaten a lot of vegetarian

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food in my time which is fantastic

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really nice and i haven't got a problem

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with it at all if i can't find meat

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anywhere

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then i'll have vegetarian food i have no

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problems at all with it not at all our

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son is vegetarian or pescatarian or if

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they eat fish

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but

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my son's father-in-law is a vegan

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so he's quite strict you know

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nothing meat based nothing at all i am a

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vegetarian okay great and um how long

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have you been a vegetarian oh my

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goodness

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can i do that how do i do them

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40

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48 years

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48

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sure you're one of the originals

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yeah probably but it was not i would

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just say i'm not a vegetarian because i

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don't believe in

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animal farming

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i don't like it

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i understand there's a need for it

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i'm a vegetarian because when we were

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growing up there's five of us

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and at the time i mean my dad ended up

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having an amazing job but at the time he

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didn't really have a great job so it's

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the same old food like disgusting minced

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beef which was mixed with peas and we

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always used to have a chicken on a

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sunday i mean everybody had anything

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else i remember once he we had pork once

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and i wondered what all the hairs were

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my mum told me and i was a bit horrified

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and then when i started secondary school

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i started hanging out with a different

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bunch of girls and

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one of them who's still my friend now

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said oh let's become a vegetarian i

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thought you know what yeah because i

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don't even like it that much right and

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it was not really going to do me any

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harm

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so

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i said went home says my mom never

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eating meat again and she said well i'll

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give you till i do a roast dinner on

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sunday and that was it then i thought

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well no i'm not going to let my mum beat

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i've i've never no i've never considered

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going the whole hog um but i do enjoy it

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like some of the recipes and the food

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that she um prepares and we eat is is

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fabulous i would do it i would i think i

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would do it and i would do it for a

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month but i don't know whether i would

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be so involved in the

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prep and the cooking and making my own

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sauces and that kind of thing bit lazy

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really

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um but yeah i would i would probably

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give it a bash if it yeah well we've

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massively you know

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look looking back to 5-10 years ago i've

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massively decreased my the amount of

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meat i eat

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it's because

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it's the right thing to do i mean you

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know there's no doubt about it there's

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so many reasons to be vegetarian or

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vegan

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environmental you know animal welfare

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um you know health-wise there's loads

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there's loads of reasons so yeah i don't

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know if i would ever completely cut me

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out um or anything like that but then i

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would go through the phase of eating

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less meat or something like that if it

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if it was

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more easily available or more yeah

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and you're saying that you you actually

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your insight on it is more of from from

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like a moral point of view as opposed to

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like a nutrition or something yeah i

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think

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yeah morals more more so than nutrition

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for sure um i think

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depending on how meat is farmed and how

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you get it it could be better

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like you can still have

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ethically sourced meat and stuff so i

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don't think that should be a

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consideration it should be more of what

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uh

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how you get it rather than what you're

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getting yeah is that something you look

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for when you go to buy yeah yeah for

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sure

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yeah it's like free range free range

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eggs or like

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yeah

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sauce fish or something like that my

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brother-in-law's vegetarian and uh some

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of the stuff he cooks is fantastic

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really really good so you know i i don't

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think i'd have to go down the line where

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i say i've got to do it i've got to try

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it because i do it anyway yeah right if

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it's if it's around i will choose it and

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i won't be disappointed never have been

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i'm not no we'd eat it willingly yeah

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but but not entirely entirely not

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entirely occasionally we

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we probably if we did it we'd probably

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go

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vegetarian with the occasional treat

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me

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treat your meat that's

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yeah

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it's a poem didn't they yeah

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how do you find it being registered in

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england do you find it quite accessible

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quite easy to be vegetarian here yeah

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i do i do think though i do think that

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if i'm to go and eat out anywhere yeah i

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don't have any expectation so i don't

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think to myself oh my god i can't wait

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like like my brother he's quite a foodie

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i'd say and he's going out with his wife

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and he's going to this restaurant and

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he's probably thinking oh

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i wouldn't think that i'd think oh

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they're going to have some shitty

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plant-based burger

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or they're gonna have some weird salad

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yeah or i'm going to be forced to have

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something i don't really want like

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salmon i don't really fancy it i'll have

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to have that with some potatoes thanks

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for watching this week's episode let us

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know in the comments below your thoughts

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on vegetarianism if you are yourself a

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vegetarian or if you have plans in the

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future to go that way and we'll see you

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next week goodbye

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