Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

"My friend's mom has eaten healthy all her life. Never ever consumed alcohol or any "bad" food, exercised every day, very limber, very active, took all supplements suggested by her doctor, never went in the sun without sunscreen and when she did it was for as short a period as possible- so pretty much she protected her health with the utmost that anyone could. She is now 76 and has skin cancer, bone marrow cancer and extreme osteoporosis.
My friend's father eats bacon on top of bacon, butter on top of butter, fat on top of fat, never and I mean never exercised, was out in the sun burnt to a crisp every summer, he basically took the approach to live life to his fullest and not as others suggest. He is 81 and the doctors says his health is that of a young person.

There is more to illness than what one eats or does or does not do to exercise the body. There are emotions, attitudes, and possibly the influences of other(past) lives and the concept of karma.

"People you cannot hide from your poison. It's out there and it will find you so in the words of my friend's still living mother: " if I would have known my life would end this way I would have lived it more to the fullest enjoying everything I was told not to!"
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else."

The sentiment here is very sound. I definitely live by this. But I don't just do things on a whim which will harm other beings. It's not as simple as these people, who are now dying, make out. They are speaking from REGRET. Regret is fear. I do these things out of love. And when operating from love, harming others is not part of the equation. And I speak not in judgment, because I realize that most people are acting out of ignorance of the true situation when consuming factory-farmed animal products.

And certainly any joy one experiences adds to the collective. I personally just would not wish that joy to be predicated upon the suffering of others. This all depends upon what we are or are not aware of of course, in this 3D place (or 4D as some are saying) which seems rife with suffering.