Why I am not a vegan

[Night Owl]

[quote]
"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.

That's exactly what I was implying. If one would kill every animal he eats and succeed at believe he is doing so out of love then he would be way more healthy than any vegan who doesn't enjoy it's experience. The thing though is that not every entity can enjoy being a vegan once meat has found it's way in his habits. It's about the perspective that entity has towards it and therefore judging any entity for eating meat isn't a compassionate thing to do. I'm not implying that you do, I speak on an external perspective of any previous discussion that included such behaviors.