no point being vegetarian...
if you continue smoking cigarettes.
shareI think George was vegetarian for ethical/spiritual reasons, more so than for health reasons. But I do wish he had given up smoking for health reasons.
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That's just life though. Time and chance. Say you're driving home one night, you decide to turn on one street over another and you're hit by a drunk driver and die. There are too many variables in life. Perhaps there have been vegetarians who smoked until their 90s.
shareEhhh.. Smoking cigs is no safer than driving home on the wrong side of the highway. It's like gargling with with 409 cleaner every day. It's poison. Sure we take a bit of chance with our lives no matter what. But poisoning yourself will lead to a shorter life, that's all.
shareHe didn't do his own health any good, but maybe he spared a few animals from being slaughtered for food.
shareHumans evolved eating meat. We have teeth, digestive systems, and metabolisms that are evolved to process meat. To not eat meat is unnatural for us.
shareAm I a vegan if I eat punani?
shareHumans have the luxury of choosing what they eat now, instead of choking down anything they could find like our primitive ancestors. Some people choose their foods for taste, or cost, or health benefits, or ethics.
shareYes, it is true eating meat was an important fact in human evolution.
However, nowadays it is not necessary to eat meat if you know how to replace the lost of some vitamins if you decide not to eat meat anymore. It is not a problem anymore.
We can choose now, our ancestors could not.
Exact. Our brains evolved too so we know how to get proteins from more sustainable sources.
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