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The original Vegan dies - aged 95
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:39 am
by roid
Donald Watson, founder of veganism, was born on September 2, 1910. He died on November 16, 2005, aged 95.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 62,00.html
While staying at the farm run by his much-loved Uncle George, Watson was shocked to see his uncle direct the slaughter of a pig. Its screams remained with him ever after. ?I decided that farms ? and uncles ? had to be reassessed: the idyllic scene was nothing more than death row, where every creature?s days were numbered.? He became a vegetarian, but continued to worry about dairy and other animal products and the way in which their industries were linked to the slaughterhouses...
Towards the end of the war, Watson formed a committee of ?non-dairy vegetarians?, who wanted to remove animal products entirely from their diet and initiate a new movement. He was keen to capitalise on the tuberculosis reported in Britain?s dairy cows, and the scarcity of eggs. He laid out the first issue of his Vegan News in November 1944, over 12 typed and stapled sheets of A4. The word vegan he took from the front and back end of ?vegetarian?, expressing his belief that this new, absolutist diet was in fact the first impulse and the final destination of the vegetarian journey. He asked for other suggestions, and ?dairyban?, ?vitan?, ?benevore?, ?sanivore? and ?beaumangeur? were offered, but most of the 25 members were happiest with vegan.
pretty old eh. think it's coz he was a vegan?
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:15 am
by Top Gun
If living that long requires eating like a rabbit, I'm more than happy to live a little shorter while downing all of the cheeseburgers and ice cream I can.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:42 am
by Stryker
My great-grandmother was most certainly not a vegan, and she lived to 100.
I don't think this can be used as a test of how well veganism works
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:52 am
by Unix
Top Gun wrote:If living that long requires eating like a rabbit, I'm more than happy to live a little shorter while downing all of the cheeseburgers and ice cream I can.
Eating is one of the great pleasures in life. Shorting yourself seems cruel.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:19 am
by fyrephlie
Unix wrote:Top Gun wrote:If living that long requires eating like a rabbit, I'm more than happy to live a little shorter while downing all of the cheeseburgers and ice cream I can.
Eating is one of the great pleasures in life. Shorting yourself seems cruel.
there are countless studies that being a vegan has very negative effects on your body without some very strong, careful, balancing of meals.
i like meat... GO MEAT!!! MOO!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:18 pm
by Top Wop
^^ That is true. You NEED protein. The protein found in some plants are not as high quality and beneficial as the ones that are found in meat.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:33 pm
by Dedman
Only 95? I always knew that eating only veggies was unhealthy.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:18 pm
by Sting_Ray
Heh... and the one who ate nothing but vegetables is going in to the ground to be eaten by animals..
Poetic justice.
I want a steak.
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:32 pm
by Sirius
*shrug* Their choice. I've never subscribed to it, but I have some idea why people might feel that way.