I think his point was more of a leather based one
That your dad's 89 and still going is good news for your odds in the lottery of longevity, but everyone has health problems at 89, whatever their lifestyle.
You must know very different children to the ones I do. Cruelly to animals and stuffing anything in their mouths seem to be fairly basic human behaviour we have to work hard to educate out.
I just took some home-made 'melting middle' chocolate muffins to a short-notice picnic amongst a load of other stuff. Person arrives half way through, not someone I know well, points at muffins and asks if they are gluten free and vegan. They then pout and give me the cold shoulder the whole time.
It's not that difficult to to do gluten free vegan and it can sometimes coincidentally be what I make and take as sharing food. Deffo try to do this if I know there's a demand/preference in the crowd. But grumpy loose acquaintance gluten-free vegans just make me want to shout "I'm an omnivore not your mind reading servant"
I just took some home-made 'melting middle' chocolate muffins to a short-notice picnic amongst a load of other stuff. Person arrives half way through, not someone I know well, points at muffins and asks if they are gluten free and vegan. They then pout and give me the cold shoulder the whole time.
It's not that difficult to to do gluten free vegan and it can sometimes coincidentally be what I make and take as sharing food. Deffo try to do this if I know there's a demand/preference in the crowd. But grumpy loose acquaintance gluten-free vegans just make me want to shout "I'm an omnivore not your mind reading servant"
You should've stuck them up their arse. That's outrageous.
I had been mostly vegetarian for 10 years prior to going vegan and I was mostly ignorant of what was behind the milk and diary supply chain. For me it was a couple of books that nailed it for me and put the spotlight on the cruelty behind some of the things we call "food". I have already referred to some of them in a previous post, The Rubbish On Our Plates and Diet For A New America. The John Robbins book in particular nailed it for me, so I suppose that might have been my camel back breaking straw. I found the narrative compelling and but also John Robbins came across as being a man of good morals and integrity, especially for renouncing his inheritance of the Baskin Robbins ice cream wealth. He was an insider who knew exactly what went on behind the scenes in dairy production, a sort of vegan Bradley Manning or Snowden.
Predicted? Wot like nostradamus or a gypsy with a crystal ball? lol. Of course there are a lot of people that don't accept that eating meat is a bad thing, but increasing numbers of people are at least thinking about it especially when confronted with the brutal realities of the meat egg and dairy industries. A lot of people would rather not know or see what goes on because then they might have to do something about it.
I was confronted with the brutal reality of sheep processing at the tender age of 16, which included a spell in the aptly-named Gut Room. This included an incident in which a sheep's stomach full of half-digested grass landed hard enough in front of me to burst its contents all over me. And until secondary school I had been entirely a city kid. I think you overestimate how squeamish the general population is.
