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How to resolve AdBlock issue? Ringo Starr: Peace, Love Sobriety and His All-Time Fav Beatles Song
JULY 5, 2019 – Hard Day's Night -- How do you stay in such great shape? I get up in the morning and I meditate. I go to the gym and I have a trainer, and I work out myself too, when I'm on the road. I'm a vegetarian. When we're on tour, to get out of the hotel, I usually go to the local organic shop just to see what they've got.
But I'm only a vegetarian, not a vegan. I eat goat cheese. A vegan is very hard, and they eat a lot of sugar. I'm careful about sugar … Was your move to vegetarianism an ethical decision? It's always ethical. I can't understand the breeding and killing and eating of all of those animals. In America, there's got to be a billion chickens being grown. But we know, as a fact, that you can grow more food on an acre of land than you can with some creature walking on it.
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Ringo Starr on Peace & Love, Sobriety and His All-Time Favorite Beatles Song, Plus an Exclusive Video Revealing His Secret to Staying Upbeat
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