Word: leavitts
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...many teens, vegetarianism is a passionately felt moral imperative. Says high school senior Claire Leavitt, 17, who spit out meat as an infant: "Animals are a part of nature, and we can live without killing them for our taste buds." Lorraine Glennon, Claire's mom and a magazine editor in New York City, eventually went veggie too. "After a while I realized I had no good answer for the question 'How can you eat animals?'" says Glennon. Riva Detweiler, a 12-year-old from Lexington, Mass., who occasionally eats chicken, says she started to connect meat eating to killing animals...