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There are ideas that are dangerous because of their potential to change things in a dramatic way, which this one also is. By most definitions, I would say that not eating animals is a dangerous idea. The slightly built 34-year-old New Yorker knows this firsthand. ''If you want to get onto a factory farm in America, you have to go in the middle of the night and that's what I did,'' he says.
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