Quote of the day:

“Look at Donald Watson. Dude was a vegan before there was even the word “vegan.” (Literally. He invented it.) Watson died in 2005 at 95 years old. If you can find some interviews he did in the last few years, you’ll be amazed at how sharp and insightful he was, right up until the end. In the last decade of his life, he “climbed many of the major peaks of the Lake District” in northwest England. If someone can be vegan for over 60 years, most of it during a time when there were no vegan convenience foods and less was known about vegan nutrition, I find it very hard to believe that a vegan diet can rationally be considered “unhealthy.””

From Vegblog.

Want to learn more about Donald Watson? Here’s his Wikipedia article, an interview with Watson with photos, an interview with Watson by VegParadise, the original issue of Vegan News which began the history of the term “vegan”, and his obituary from the Guardian.

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