James Cameron has come up with an alternative word for vegan. While he was telling the story of his wife and his vegan journey in an interview with GQ, he spoke about how he came up with the term “futurevore.”
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“I tried to come up with a good term for it because vegan has all those connotations,” he told GQ in an interview.
“‘How many vegans does it take to screw in a light bulb?’ ‘It doesn’t matter. I’m better than you.’ You just want to punch a vegan,” he said. “‘Punch a vegan today: It’ll feel good.’ So the term I came up with is ‘futurevore.’
“We’re eating the way people will eat in the future. We’re just doing it early.”
Cameron spoke about his groundbreaking Netflix documentary, The Game Changers, which proves that athletes can be successful on plant-based diets.
“We thought, This is it: sports performance. Right? A lot of people care about sports performance—and between the lines, it’s sexual performance,” he said. “So it’s vigor, it’s energy, it’s staying younger, but we made it about sports, and then just went out after all the vegan athletes and showed how they were doing better.”
No matter what term you use, a whole foods, plant-based diet is the best diet for your health, the environment, and animals.
Reducing your meat intake and eating more plant-based foods is known to help with chronic inflammation, heart health, mental well-being, fitness goals, nutritional needs, allergies, gut health, and more! Unfortunately, dairy consumption also has been linked to many health problems, including acne, hormonal imbalance, cancer, and prostate cancer, and has many side effects.
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