Ain't that the truth?

[redhawker]

 

[Mike J]

Might be true. I briefly worked with a guy that was a vegan. He was nice enough but just strange.

 

[gramps]

Vegans don't live longer, they die of malnutrition, strokes brought on by a lack of fats in the diet, lack of vit B12 etc! They are also prone to respiratory infections. OTOH lacto-ovo (dairy and eggs) vegetarians do live longer due to better nutrition.
gramps

 

[graygun]

Do these folks drive Vegas?

 

[stevemb]

No bacon ? No steak ? Why live longer ? The co-worker that misses the most time at work for illness is a vegan.

 

[picketpin]

My brother is an engineer. One of the guys that worked with him was a very serious vegetarian Did all the things about replacing fats with this or that veg protein, with other more complex etc. he had it down to science and according to RG he stayed right at 2% body fat , ran marathons and was all lean muscle. One day RG spotted him in the lunch room eating a HAMBURGER!!

Carl, what happened? "You know I did that for 7 years". ""you have any idea just how hard it is to get your nutrition right on a vegan diet"? "It's work" "After 7 years I just decided it wasn't worth all the trouble and if I die a couple years earlier and enjoy myself, so be it".

 

[Selena]

No bacon ? No steak ? Why live longer ? The co-worker that misses the most time at work for illness is a vegan.

I remember one patient when I was a lowly nurse's aide being advised by the doctor to stop eating red meat, smoking cigars and cutting down on his sex life. After being told "of course not" when he asked if he did all that if he would live forever he interrupted the doctor with a pithier version of "why bother then."

If someone wants to be a Vegan that's their choice and more power to them. They have no call to put on the air that they are somehow better people for the practice. Since all flesh is grass my preference for red meat means my diet isn't making the poor animal I put on the dinner table go hungry.

 

[Elfego El Gato]

Vegans might live longer, but they're miserable in the meantime. Me? I'd rather trade a couple of years of old age (as some comedian said, smoking might kill you sooner, but the years you're losing are the ones at the end that suck anyway!) for happiness and contentedness right now.

...The more you know!

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

As long as I can look in the mirror and see those four longish, sharp teeth, I'm gonna enjoy using them as God intended, on dead animal parts... Sorry, vegans! :shock:

Rick C

 

[737tdi]

Not to get all religious on y'all but I think the same about not eating pork. How can a vegan or other abstainer not cry when walking by someone cooking bacon? Life without bacon would truly suck :shock: . Our teeth are designed to be omnivores, to eat both veggies and meat.

Karl

 

[Big Old Boy]

I'll eat what I want and die happy