Pretty buff for a septuagenarian, huh?
He broke the color barrier in bodybuilding, and now he’s breaking the age barrier as PETA’s most senior pin-up to promote vegan eating. Jim is also the subject of a documentary premiering this month at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival in Utah.
It’s never too late to make healthy, humane choices. Jim went vegetarian when he was 50 and vegan when he was 65. In an interview with PETA, he talks about the health problems he endured when he ate meat and dairy products and he doubts that he would be alive today if he had continued to eat an unhealthy animal-based diet. He reveals that he now not only feels better physically but also feels good about himself because his food choices no longer cause thinking, feeling animals to suffer.
Read more: http://www.peta.org/blog/vegan-bodybuilder-jim-morris/#ixzz37B4oNbXg