So was I Pinky.
Try looking at the Hunzacuts, the Georgians, the East Indian Todas, or the Yucatan Indians, to name but a few. They are famous for their longevity, due to a diet high in raw foods and low in protein, and all suffer from hardly any degenerative diseases and living for up to one hundred and twenty years. And that's just the documented stuff. There are plenty of real old people appearing the same age as you or I who carefully guard the secrets of longevity, but who are only too happy to share the benefits of an animal-free diet.
Also, consider races such as the Eskimos, Laplanders and Greenlanders, whose average life expectancy is between thirty and forty years and who live in a diet extremely high in animal protein. The Arctic explorer Svenson was impressed by the hardy eskimos and their diet of meat, so much so that he went home and tried it himself. Unfortunately he cooked his meatand became so seriously ill he would have died had he not stopped. Modern day Eskimos have begun to cook their meat as a result of contact with 'civilisation'. The diseases of civilisation have soon followed.