John Mackey
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There's not a vegan camp because there's... There's too few people.
There's too few of them.
Yeah.
Too few of them.
And I'm certainly not, I am not a, I'm an ethical vegan, but I'm not pushing that on anybody else.
And I think, you know, I'm kind of believing the Blue Zones diet that you mostly eat plants.
Yeah.
That's how we evolved.
But we also didn't evolve as vegans.
We evolved as maybe if you go back far enough to the gorillas, they're vegan.
Chimpanzees are 98% vegan.
Right.
In general, humans grew up eating, hunting and gathering, mostly gathering, but they ate some animal food.
So I think that's part of our genetic structure.
It's hard to get B12.
We don't know of a single historical culture or tribe that was strictly vegan.
I follow, we'll call it a whole foods plant-based diet, meaning I try to eat as few processed foods as possible.
And I start out the day with a huge smoothie.
I make a whole vitamin mix, a smoothie.
It's half vegetables and half fruits.