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Originally Posted by sirkinm

Just to remind the readers, as stated above, Hitler & Einstein were not vegetarians, though they both had respect for the diet. Hitler practiced some form of vegetarian at times, and Einstein was only a vegetarian for perhaps his final year of life, if that.

Many super geniuses have become mathematicians. You could say that Einstein was a physicist. But he was a mathematics professor at Princeton U. So I will introduce mathematics to your statement. I heard that Hitler was 25% Jewish. The Hallelujah Acres group have and promote an 85% raw diet. Now the people that are 100% raw can say that either you are 100% raw or not a raw foods person.

But they explain why they chose 85% over 100%. So you could say that Hitler was at least 90% vegetarian. Are people right all of the time or right a certain percentage of the time? Or you could say that Hitler was a vegetarian that cheated. If Einstein got wiser with age then you could say that it was significant that it was his last year that he was vegetarian.

Now what will you say about me if I become very famous but die within 6 months? I was a vegetarian for over 30 years, but have only been a vegan for 6 months. So if people say about me that I was a vegan, then I guess you will say that I was only a vegan in the last year of my life, if that. So how long that I am a vegan depends on my lifespan. There is a great chance that if Einstein lived for 20 years longer then he would have been a vegetarian for 20 years. He has some profound statements about the vegetarian diet.

I am actually betting my life on my belief that the vegan diet is healthier than the vegetarian diet. Someone can be on a vegetarian diet and consume more cholesterol than a meat eater (plant foods have no cholesterol). They can eat a lot of eggs, a pound of cheese a day and a quart of Ben & Jerry's ice cream a day. It is my belief that Ben & Jerry's ice cream tastes great but is extremely unhealthy. Note that being a premium ice cream means that a quart of it weighs more than a quart of non-premium ice cream since it contains more cream and sugar and less air.

Also I have 2 friends that have been vegan for many years. If the vegan diet is healthier than the vegetarian diet, then they deserve (all else being equal) to live longer than me. I bought a book of Einstein quotes today. Einstein said (August 1953; Einstein Archives 60-058) "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience." He died in 1955