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A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.
Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 21
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