@MulletMan:

Nothing better than Mullet, skin on and backbones fried in LARD!!
Well, anything fried in lard is just about as close to Heaven you can get on earth!

I think some of the health problems we face today are from “healthy alternatives” such as shortening instead of real Butter, and hydrogenated cooking oils instead of lard.

Most of folks health problems are genetic. High blood pressure, heart problems, high cholesterol, and other things. If your Parents had problems, chances are you will also, and a proper diet will be needed.

My Great Uncle that lived until 104 years old, smoked Prince Albert hand rolled cigarettes and drank bourbon and beer until he died, everyday! He had to give up driving at 98 years old due to poor eye sight, but continued to farm and run a tractor until the day he died.

Grandmother was found dead behind her house with a Deer she killed strung up to be cleaned. Heart attack at 93 and she had a passion for Red Seal snuff, Cigars and good Gin. I wonder how long they would of lived not drinking or smoking, and eating “Healthy” ?
They both lived off the land, eating fried critters and fish, home grown vegetables and drinking water out of a hand dug shallow well. Ate dirt sometimes, some kind of clay they both liked to eat.
Amazing how we do so much to take care of ourselves, and don’t live near as long as they did..

Lima beans, yummmm, the people around me can just live with the aftereffects.
Legumes — black eyed peas, field peas, peanuts, more yummmmm
Nuts — seems a bit cannibalistic

I doubt the opponents are unaware the other sources of protein exist and I imagine they all eat most of them. (And don’t forget that wheat has protein.)
I suspect they also like the taste of meat.

David for happy lives

Those Viennas can stand alone on their own.

@CheeseburgerNparadise, before you know it every day will be meatless, unless?
This will just get us aclamated (acclimated) to it.

It isn’t THAT bad. The government has been telling us things they think we should do since they told us we should separate from bloody old England. Well, okay, they convinced us some of the times but not always. What’s cute is how the advice changes and isn’t even consistent at the same time.
Coffee’s bad because of this.
Coffee’s good because of that.
Spend more to boost the economy.
The economy’s in bad shape because of not enough people saving.
Eggs are bad for you.
Eggs are good for you.
Sunlight’s good for you because it kills pathogens and generates vitamins.
Sunlight causes cancer.
Freedom of speech should be respected.
Certain words shouldn’t spoken.
The Bill of Rights should be respected.
Certain people should be locked up in Guantanamo so their rights won’t count.
Mass transit is the wave of the future.
Avoid massing together in case of terrorist attack.
Oh, wait, has the government ever mentioned that possibility? Probably not, don‘t want to scare us.

Anyhoo, if advice sounds good, take it.
If it sounds bad, don’t take it — although research might make it sound more reasonable but the sources are often questionable. I’ve seen studies showing that the studies showing how bad meat is didn’t take into account that many of the meat eaters also drank and smoked. That would skew the results.

And remember, whatever the advice is today will be different next week or next year.

David for the well-meaning