The thing is, it is so easy these days to have a good diet and be healthy without eating flesh. We are not pioneers in the vast food-less forest.

Thanks for sharing, Ink. We need to be reminded daily.

But 74? Heck, that leaves this country plenty of time to hurt you badly by ruining your business :(

didn't click on the link - don't have what it takes to watch such as that - but point taken.

:o(

Old is definitely underway by age 80, because 50% of Americans over 80 have Alzheimer's or dementia. People in their 80s and 90s are on overtime.

My mother made it to 80, had a stroke 2 months later, and then was gone approaching 2 months after that. She always did think punctuality was important.

Limiting animal protein should help longevity of one's self, as well as reducing the mass production of meat and meat products (if enough consumers were to cut back significantly). Meanwhile, tons and tons of toxic foods go down the gullets of millions who eat mostly what they think is fun to eat, rather than what is good for them.

Not exactly limiting the animal protein and most certainly eating for fun.

I have been a longtime vegetarian, yet I still wrestle with this issue. Where did the milk from Chobani yogurt come from? How about my cat's pet food? How about eating out at a restaurant - where did their animal products come from?

There is something terribly wrong with a society that thinks CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) are an acceptable way to produce food, and treats other sentient creatures in such an inhumane way, so that producers can profit, and consumers can indulge themselves, cheaply.

I could watch a few seconds of the video. It's horrifying to see people treat a living being with such cruelty. Factory farms should be outlawed.

Nor do we grow it in a humane manner, as I'm quite certain the video shows, even though I am not watching it.

As a society, we have become so far removed from our source of food that we have no idea where it originates, how it's raised or made, what goes into its processing, etc... which has lead us to many negative issues.

Humankind certainly can live without being carnivorous, but for those of us that remain so, I think it's important to face and honor that source, and take it with that respect for life and death, and for what it gives us.

This is one of the reasons we taught our children to hunt, to only take that which we need, utilize it all, and to respect and give thanks for the offerings of our planet. We feel it an important life lesson... more so because we are not vegetarian, and do consume some meats.

Even the trade of Butcher is no longer a viable one in our country... a dying breed... as we import more and more, and become ever further from that original source.

While there is a lot wrong with our modern food system, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the human body consuming animal foods. Just not like the gluttons in this country who eat meat and animal products not only on a daily basis, but at every meal! There are few people that need that kind of energy to perform their daily activities.

100+ years ago people not only worked much harder, but they probably did it on a LOT less food. One thing I am certain that the human body is very good at, is using fuel very efficiently.

Even vegetarian diets, depending on the sources, are being genetically altered. A lot of the soils used to grow are depleted or lowered of what's needed to produce fruits and vegetables with nutritious value. Much of what's grown is done so using heavy duty chemicals, and/or are irradiated or otherwise treated for bacterias and things which should not be issues. Some items are coated for storage or otherwise altered or treated for long shipping times so they are not quite ripe when they arrive in our grocers produce sections... and I notice a lot of items never do ripen or taste as they should.

Knowing what I do about farming in general makes me very picky about where I get my produce and meats from. I'd rather grow it myself, hunt it, or otherwise know its source. Even my dogs don't eat the way most pets are fed.

The commercial food industry is tainted, compromised... whether we're talking about human or domestic animal consumption... and companies like Monsanto want to further mess with mother nature...

I am like Jodi I do not give my pets commercial foods in a bag or can. I try to eat as less meat as possible but I cannot say the vegetables are much better with the chemicals they spray and the lack of cleanliness of the harvest and storage before it goes to market.

I guess my Mother blessing every meal is about all you can do is pray over it and hope for the best and do not put anything in your body without a complete cleaning process.

Soak in vinigar, salt, scrub what you can etc.