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Originally posted by Hieyeck:
fish has flesh, therefore fish = meat.
why do somemany people consider fish vegetarian?
Yeah some of the synth meat taste like feces. However, if you buy some Chinese vegetarian food, they taste much better. Try a Chinese vegetarian or a Buddhist restaurant. I'm not a pure vegetarian (vegan) myself, i drink milk and eat eggs once in a while (from pasta, bread, flapjacks, etc.)
and as for living 33% longer, they do (on average of course). Chinese had a very long life span about 750 years ago. They lived to about 60-70, barring war of course. This was because meat was a luxury in old China (too much grain to raise a cow, etc.), so they only ate it on New Year's. (Pork was a bit more common, cuz pigs ate all the leftovers .)
I don't really think that the longer life span can be attributed to diet alone. Life was also a great deal less stressful back then, people led much more physically-active lives, and people probably didn't chain-smoke Marlboros like they do today, either.
The vegan diet has some problems, nutritionally. Vegans have a difficult time getting enough B vitamins, and in specific, I think it is B12 that many vegans are chronically deficint in.
Also, if you know how to cook, and use high-quality ingredients, a vegetarian diet need not be boring at all. Most of the Mediterranean cuisines de-emphasize meat and that area is known for some of the best food in the world.
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