Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:55:31 +0100
From: The Natural Philosopher 
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y uk.education.misc uk.education.schools-it uk.finance uk.food+drink.misc uk.food+drink.real-ale
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons to go veggie

William Black wrote:
> "The Natural Philosopher"  wrote in message
> news:1159050157.38086.2@despina.uk.clara.net...
>> Owain wrote:
>>> John Cartmell wrote:
>>>> Only if you say that much more red meat and animal fat is better. I
>>>> don't.
>>>> Health experts agree with me.
>>> Nothing wrong with red meat and animal fat.
>>>
>>> Unless you want to have a sedentary lifestyle and a life expectancy
>>> greater than about 45. Neither of which applied much probably before the
>>> 17th century.
>>>
>>> Owain
>>>
>>>
>> Ah, IF you lived to 20 you probably lived to 60.
>>
>> Mostly you died at birth, or from some raging bacterial disease before
>> puberty.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> A medieval agricultural labourer who survived beyond puberty would probably
> die around age 32 having been worked to death.
> 
Nope. More like 50.

Agreed that agriculture is probably the worst thing (after vegans) that 
ever happened to mankind.