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Goodbye, Carnism

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Do you remember the crazy things that happened when you were just three or four years old?

I have a 1970 flashback from a village called Ballengeich*, near Newcastle, KZN. Its only hero is a sheep that lived next door. One day it was alive and full of beans (metaphorically speaking), but the next, it was lying in bloody pieces, alongside a pile of red-soaked wool, as people cut it up. Why

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