“I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer was very devoted to the vegetarian cause and was frequently quoted as saying this statement, as reported in Judaism and Vegetarianism by Richard H. Schwartz (New York: Lantern Books, 2001, ISBN 1-930051-24-7), p. 177 https://books.google.it/books?id=zo5TqKQVcEgC&pg=PA177

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Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

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