95-year-old woman watches ‘What the Health’, becomes vegan activist – Totally Vegan Buzz
95 years old vegan woman activist
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At the age of 95, Anne Evers Fraser has proved it’s never too late to go vegan.

The grandma who ate meat for the nearly a century was so shocked by pro-vegan documentary What The Health, she decided to switch to a plant-based diet.

Fraser has well and truly defied the perception that ‘old habits die hard’, and now is an outspoken activist on her Instagram page.

“I watched @wthfilm and went #plantbased 3 weeks before my 96th birthday!” she explains.

Now 97, she’s never looking back to a life of meat and dairy. She’s regularly seen wearing striking pro-vegan clothing, and sends powerful messages of compassion to her 28,000 followers.

“We do not need to consume animal products to survive and thrive,” she wrote.

“We have been sold a lie and now the truth is out. WE MUST STOP KILLING ANIMALS. It’s cruel and unnecessary. It’s also destroying the planet and making us sick.

“I didn’t wake up to the horrors of factory farming until my 96th year. I never even questioned consuming animal products, I just did it. But guess what? IT’S NEVER TO LATE TO MAKE A CHANGE. And let me tell you something else, you will feel so much better, I promise!”

She also promotes delicious vegan food on her page, writing: “In these last 2 years as a vegan I’ve eaten the best food of my life! This cream brûlée definitely makes the top ten!

“I never feel restricted on a vegan diet. I can eat as many fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and legumes as I want and have yet to experience that stuffed and lethargic feeling after meals. I never have to restrict how much food I eat which is so refreshing after spending the majority of my life dieting.

“Oh how I wish I found this lifestyle out sooner! But better late than never.”

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I didn’t choose my diet until my 95th year. I was given the standard American diet at birth and adopted it like everyone else. I spent 90 plus years eating meat for protein and drinking milk for strong bones and didn’t question it until I watched @wthfilm. In the documentary I was exposed to the the extremely negative health, environmental and ethical impacts of animal agriculture and I CHOSE VEGAN. Do I wish I found this information sooner? Yes. But once I got it, I made the change and now i’m passionate about spreading the truth: We do not need to consume animal products to survive therefore we have no right to kill another sentient being and contribute to the destruction of our planet in the process. The health benefits are just an added bonus. Choose VEGAN. For the people. For the planet. For the animals. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MAKE A CHANGE.

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I grew up drinking cow’s milk and putting butter on everything. My mother never cooked a meal without having a creamed vegetable dish of some kind. I did not think twice about my dairy consumption until my 95th year when I watched the documentary @wthfilm. In the film, Dr. Michael Klaper says that the purpose of cows milk is to turn a 65 pound calf into a 400 pound cow as rapidly as possible. Everything in that white liquid – the hormones, the lipids, the protein, the sodium, etc. – is meant to grow a baby calf into a cow. This made complete sense to me and yet for 94 years, I believed that you needed to drink milk for calcium, that you needed dairy to be healthy. This is just one of the many lies that the dairy industry has sold us, to keep us buying their products and to keep us sick. I can’t tell you how much better I feel on a vegan diet! And I didn’t have to give up my favorite creamy things! There are amazing dairy alternatives out there. It’s never to late to make the change. #govegan ? @vegan.leather.co

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We are stealing the future of our young people. We are destroying the planet with our consumption and lifestyle. We are in the middle of our 6th mass extinction, losing 200 species every single day. We are facing an existential threat. WE MUST ACT NOW TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM DEVASTATING CLIMATE CHANGE. The media is not talking about it and our current administration doesn’t believe it. WE MUST RISE UP! Adopt a vegan diet. It’s the best way to reduce your impact on the planet. Vote with your dollar. Corporations start to listen to when their bottom line is being negatively impacted. Get involved with politics! As frustrating as our current system is, it’s the only one we’ve got. Call your politicians and let them know how you feel and support candidates who prioritize fighting climate change. WE MUST DO IT FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE! They didn’t ask to be brought into this world and now they are being brought into a world that might not exist in the future because of us. We owe it to them to do everything we can to stop further warming. We have no choice because they will have no future if we don’t?

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Oli’s career and personal ethical values both help shape his reporting of the diverse world of veganism. His background is in local newspaper and magazine journalism, and his work has included reporting court cases, celebrity interviews, business analysis, food and drink features and government legislation.

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