I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and …my family made major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me. The scientific evidence came first.
—T. Colin Campbell
elegy
A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."