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
simile
A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as." An example of a simile using like occurs in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem": "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"