Welcome to this week’s Reader Mailbag!
A note: I get enough questions to do two or three mailbags a week. I’ve considered putting a second Mailbag on Thursdays. Would this be of interest to you guys?
I recall a few months ago you were thinking seriously about cutting out all or most meat [...]
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