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The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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Hampstead Village
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