Wet your whistle.
Okay.
Where else do you want to go? I got the diet etymology on the screen, and it says circa 1200 regular food from old French dietes.
Also a day's work, daily food allowance, food from Latin Dieta, prescribed way of life from Greek.
There
you go.
Prescribed way of life, yeah, from Greek Dietia, Dieta, originally way of life, regimen, dwelling.
All right.
Just the way you do things.
Yep, my...
And my brother's only a year older than me, but I'm bigger, so we kind of grew up looking like twins, and Both of our names start with J, so my
grandpa
named these calves after us.
And in a cattle farm situation, you keep the bull separate from the cow, separate from the cows with calves, and the calves had their own pen.
So for this summer vacation, I played with a calf that had my namesake, and, you know, it was brisket for dinner.
So, like, even from a young age.
That upsets you.
It didn't upset me because I continued to eat beef for another 12 years or so, 15 maybe.
But it stuck out to me that what if we didn't have to? Like, could you get your animal life force and your plant life force and your minerals without the slaughter? Yeah.
I've made it from that little boy to 49 years old now.
And it's possible.
It worked for me.
Wet your whistle.
Okay.
Where else do you want to go? I got the diet etymology on the screen, and it says circa 1200 regular food from old French dietes.
Also a day's work, daily food allowance, food from Latin Dieta, prescribed way of life from Greek.
There
you go.
Prescribed way of life, yeah, from Greek Dietia, Dieta, originally way of life, regimen, dwelling.
All right.
Just the way you do things.
Yep, my...
And my brother's only a year older than me, but I'm bigger, so we kind of grew up looking like twins, and Both of our names start with J, so my
grandpa
named these calves after us.
And in a cattle farm situation, you keep the bull separate from the cow, separate from the cows with calves, and the calves had their own pen.
So for this summer vacation, I played with a calf that had my namesake, and, you know, it was brisket for dinner.
So, like, even from a young age.
That upsets you.
It didn't upset me because I continued to eat beef for another 12 years or so, 15 maybe.
But it stuck out to me that what if we didn't have to? Like, could you get your animal life force and your plant life force and your minerals without the slaughter? Yeah.
I've made it from that little boy to 49 years old now.
And it's possible.
It worked for me.
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