AR-News: (US IA) 94-year-old vegeterian attributes health to life-style

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By BRENDA CORNELIUS Courier Staff Writer
WATERLOO --- Close your eyes and think ''vegetarian.''

What comes to mind? Tie-dye, sandals, tofu, PETA?
No tie-dye, just a simple blue sweater. Her shoes are comfortable, but they 
aren't Birkenstocks; and she's not real fond of tofu. She's also a former 
butcher with a sentimental attachment to hot dogs (more about that later).

Pierce is spiritual, but not proselytizing; committed but not strident. You 
won't hear a speech or detect so much as a raised eyebrow if you sit down next 
to her at the Unitarian Universalist Church potluck and bite into a piece of 
fried chicken.

And no questions, please, about whether it's a healthy lifestyle. She's 94.

Though never fond of meat, Pierce became a vegetarian about 20 years ago. 
Since then, she said, "I never ate anything that ran from me when I tried to 
catch it."

Her decision to eschew meat at age 74 is grounded more in health and 
environmental reasons than animal activism. She agrees with Francis Moore Lappe, 
author of "Diet for a Small Planet," that if people ate lower on the food chain --- 
consuming the plants fed to animals -- "we could feed everybody in this 
world."


Open your eyes and meet Mildred Pierce.





full story:

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2004/03/29/news/metro/f844271f1b4e014386256
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