Comments on: Keeping Our Loved Ones Alive and Healthy Longer http://prime.peta.org/2008/09/keeping-our-loved-ones-alive-and-healthy-longer Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Laura http://prime.peta.org/2008/09/keeping-our-loved-ones-alive-and-healthy-longer/comment-page-1#comment-87 Laura Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +0000 http://prime.peta.org/?p=308#comment-87 My father was also stubborn about the vegan diet, until he became so ill with heart disease that he couldn't eat his heavy meals of meat and dairy. I brought him vegan soups and he finally conceded the vegan diet was good for him and the food was delicious. Too late, I'm afraid. I am thankful for this new website. We need this info about our health now, when we are still in our prime! My father was also stubborn about the vegan diet, until he became so ill with heart disease that he couldn’t eat his heavy meals of meat and dairy. I brought him vegan soups and he finally conceded the vegan diet was good for him and the food was delicious. Too late, I’m afraid. I am thankful for this new website. We need this info about our health now, when we are still in our prime!

]]> By: Bruce Andrew Peters http://prime.peta.org/2008/09/keeping-our-loved-ones-alive-and-healthy-longer/comment-page-1#comment-51 Bruce Andrew Peters Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:38:38 +0000 http://prime.peta.org/?p=308#comment-51 It seems that the things we do every day lead to animal cruelty and poor health, yet go by unnoticed. Since eating meat is heavily publicized in advertisements as mainstream and fun (what would a pig think about a "weinermobile?") and one cannot see the internal harm to their bodies (nor the cruelty of industrial farming, animal transportation nor slaughterhouses), it's easy to understand how in our busy lives, these details could fall by the wayside. Those who profit from animal cruelty can do so as all of the dirty secrets - from cruelty to health hazards - are deliberately hidden from view or made confusing to the consumer. Slaughterhouses are guarded 24 hours a day and shrouded in razorwire. Ouch! Profiteers of animal cruelty really don't want you to see what's inside. My father was an infantry officer who served in the United States Army's Special Forces (Ranger) in Korea and Viet Nam. Despite surviving combat that earned him a purple heart, bronze star, silver star, Legion of Merit and other commendations, he could not survive the consequences of a meat diet. He died from heart disease at age 63 - despite running marathons and regular exercise throughout his life. I now look back at one of our father-son memories of eating Slim Jims together and wonder how we thought that this was good. Ignorance is bliss. It seems that the things we do every day lead to animal cruelty and poor health, yet go by unnoticed. Since eating meat is heavily publicized in advertisements as mainstream and fun (what would a pig think about a “weinermobile?”) and one cannot see the internal harm to their bodies (nor the cruelty of industrial farming, animal transportation nor slaughterhouses), it’s easy to understand how in our busy lives, these details could fall by the wayside.

Those who profit from animal cruelty can do so as all of the dirty secrets - from cruelty to health hazards - are deliberately hidden from view or made confusing to the consumer. Slaughterhouses are guarded 24 hours a day and shrouded in razorwire. Ouch! Profiteers of animal cruelty really don’t want you to see what’s inside.

My father was an infantry officer who served in the United States Army’s Special Forces (Ranger) in Korea and Viet Nam. Despite surviving combat that earned him a purple heart, bronze star, silver star, Legion of Merit and other commendations, he could not survive the consequences of a meat diet. He died from heart disease at age 63 - despite running marathons and regular exercise throughout his life.

I now look back at one of our father-son memories of eating Slim Jims together and wonder how we thought that this was good. Ignorance is bliss.

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