They are vegetarian and have been for years.
Think I read recently about a case of a child who was fed vegan and died.
Personally I could do without red meat, even white meat and just do wild caught fish but might be too hard for me to be a real vegetarian. However, based on the people I know I ought to try it.
I did read an article by an English guy who for years couldn’t bring himself to eat meat and he had over a decade of unexplained illnesses. Finally he ate some meat and in less than a week he was way better. It was quite interesting - maybe your personal chemistry defines if you can survive without meat or not.
... maybe your personal chemistry defines if you can survive without meat or not.
I think you're right, absolutely. Individual chemistry and genetitics probably determine to a huge degree the kind of diet best for some people. Anybody can survive without meat, for sure. Maybe not as hardily, or maybe at the mercy of some man-made nutritional supplement for optimum equivalence. As for vegans -- if Tom Cruise actually is vegan, which I doubt, but IF he is, then I guaran-damn-tee that he is taking lots and lots of man-made "vegan" nutritional supplements that cost a mint and which probably contain some trace (or more than a trace!) of some animal-derived essential, such as B-12.
Personally, I don't see any sensible reason to forego meat unless one thinks that it is healthier for the body. Empirical evidence to me indicates that meat nutrition as part of a balanced omnivorous intake low on sugars is super efficient, but that one can get along okay without it if one is smart enough to figure out dairy/egg vegetable combinations to balance the outcome. It seems like a lot of trouble to me! And I am a meat lover to the degree that I like quite a lot of red meat raw or virtually raw. I like my fish raw, too!!!! {^)