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Although men make up only 20-30 per cent of the vegetarian population, they are a growing breed, writes Michael Kelly

A COUPLE of years ago, I went vegetarian for a week and wrote about the experience in the pages of this newspaper. You might not think that amounts to much as social experiments go, but I am a voracious meat-eater so it was quite a sacrifice.