For the next 17 years, I ate grains, produce, legumes, and fake meat products like those Morningstar bacon strips that have a lower nutritional value than cat food. And for the next 17 years, it seemed like I was always hungry no matter how large my bowl of beans and rice. Even worse than constant hunger, I didn't seem to enjoy food the way other people did. Eating was a chore, like folding laundry or paying bills, but even more annoying because if I didn't do it I would die. I was sick of being hungry, I was sick of beans and rice. Sounds like he was in a Vietnamese prison for 17 years vs living as a free man, no wonder he cracked! I see that article is 4 years old, I promise you the quality and range of meat and dairy alternatives is significantly different nowadays
