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Plant-Based NewsThe Dalai Lama Encourages a Switch to Vegetarianism on World Animal Day
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is encouraging his followers around the globe to adopt a vegetarian diet in an effort to alleviate suffering on World Animal Day, which took place…
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