If someone eats meat, how long do they have to live?

Question

If the average vegetarian lives to be over 90, then what does the average meat eater live to be?

cartmanshumungousazz, your best friend just died and your laughing? Must be the meat clogging your insides and starving your brain for oxygen.

Spyderbear, your grandmother died of meat poisoning, what more proof do you need? If you eat meat, you die.

Answer 1

Jesus h FUCKlNG christ, you people have a problem. I want to eat nothing but steaks for a week and take a big meaty SHlT down your mouth, yes im talking to you ashley, you pscyho propaganda wh0re.

Answer 2

Everybody dies stupid. There is no way out of this life alive. At least the fake Ashleys come up with funny silly stuff. The garbage you spew is ridiculous. The average age of longevity in the US is 77.7 years in 2005. Considering the majority of the US is meat eating I think this pretty much disputes your point all together. There are too many variables to say that a vegan diet makes you live longer.

I mean maybe you should start looking into whether a vegan diet might even make you immortal. Then you could sit around telling everybody how you are both moral and immortal because of your vegan lifestyle.

Answer 3

You're not the brightest spark in the box eh? Must be all those veggies. "Humans" only evolved into humans with bigger brains when they started eating more proteins such as fish and meat. Open your mouth and look at your teeth. You have the teeth of an omnivore, not a herbivore or carnivore for that matter.
As to longer life, get real. Its a theory put forward by rabid vegetarians such as yourself and PETA with no true scientific proof to back it up. Someone mentioned Linda McCartney, well she was not only a very strict vegan but also didn't drink, smoke, she did exercise, all in all a very healthy person. And she died of cancer in her 50's.
And your comments! Poor Spyderbear's grandmother died of meat poisoning at 96?! Wow, she actually live longer than the average vegetarian.
You eat meat you die? You will die anyway Ashley.

Answer 4

My grandmother lived on a farm and ate meat 2 or 3 times a day her whole life and lived to be 95. Genes have a lot more to do with how long you live then if you eat meat or not. My question is if you sit on your azz all day thinking of stupid questions all day, each one dumber then the last, does that shorten your life? Do you have a room mate who reminds you to breath from time to time?

Answer 5

Dear God woman, you make me feel ashamed to be vegetarian!

There is no such thing as 'meat poisoning'. You can get food poisoning which comes from food which is off, or hasn't been cooked properly, or has been prepared/cooked in poor hygiene conditions.

I am the only veggie in my family. My 3 remaining grandparents (my grandad died of pneumonia from smoking - his death was nothing to do with his diet), are 79, 83 and 87. the 79 year old is most likely to die soonest because she is overweight. my other two are reasonably fit for their age.

It is NORMAL for people to die when they get old. The fact that people die in their 80s and 90s has very little to do with their diet - it is due to the fact that they are old and bits of them stop working. If people are overweight and dying in their 40s and 50s, then yes, you can attribute that largely to their diet.

OK so you reckon being veggie makes you live longer. When do you live those extra years? At the END of your life, when for most it consists of going to your friends funerals, sitting at home in front of the TV and waiting. When you're in your 80s and 90s, the vast majority of people aren't able to get about so easily, so you can't do so much in the way of 'living' in the sense of going out seeing the world and experiencing things.

But if the idea of being 98, an incontinent jibbering wreck in a care home who doesn't know what day it is - if that's your idea of life, time well spent staying alive for, then that's up to you. :)

Answer 6

Gosh Ashley why won't you give up your soapbox? My dad and mom were in their 80s. Several of their friends were in their 90s (one was 96). I've only had a couple of friends or family die before their 80s and all ate meat several times a day, all their life.

The only 2 vegetarians I knew one blew his brains out in his 20s. The other lived to 75. So I don't know where you're getting your stats unless you believe everything you read on the web.

Answer 7

LoL I have heard if you are a vegan you will never die even if you are hit by a bus,,,, your diet will always save you, it even beats genetic diseases.

Oh man you are so stupid it's unreal never mind when you start in high school you may start to grow up a bit.

Why is it Q/A thinks it's OK to support extremists with terrorist connections like your PETA clowns,, this is what I think i will be asking next and using you as one of those extremist fool's as an example.

You may be protected in this section lets see how far that protection goes eh!

Answer 8

There are so many variables its impossible to tell. Hereditory factors, general lifestyle, where a person lives, town or country. You cant give a person a life expectancy based soley on whether or not they eat meat.
Another dubious claim that the average vegetarian lives to be over 90. I assume you can back this up somehow? Or are you talking bollox again?

Answer 9

Not true. My great granny lived up to 96 and was very old fashioned, i.e. she ate a balanced diet, including meat. I don't know the average but you really can't be so blunt as to say, wrongly, :you eat meat, you die! It's like saying, there is definitely a god! PROVE IT! Oh wait, you can't!

Answer 10

what are you totally gullible? the idea and concept of vegans and vegetarians hasn't been around long enough for scientific study to conclusively confirm much of anything. so anyone "claiming" they have proof these two groups live longer is lying to you. if it's based on the japenese or asian diet, they eat fish that counts as meat.

think for yourself, get a life and stop insulting people just because they live differently to you. this is more a prejudice issue on your part than anyone elses. people like you make me really angry and give vegans a bad name.

Answer 11

Richards is right, too many variables to point to JUST meat vs veggies. Vegetarians tend to be more concerned about their health, and as such, they probably work out more, are less likely to smoke, etc.

The latter has been shown to have a huge impact on life expectancy, so much so that many other things we might (or might not) do turn out to be just noise compared to the difference produced by smoking vs non.

(and as others mentioned, genetics also plays a huge roll)