[Finny]

They argue that between heart disease, cholesterol, etc, that eating meat isn't healthy when compared to a vegetarian diet, which may be true.

Some anecdotal info: I recently worked a very enjoyable four-month "temp" job in an office where out of eight women, including myself, four of us were meat-eaters, and four were vegetarians. Of the four vegetarians, three were very much overweight, and those three called in "sick" during the four months I was there at least twice, and all four had chronic health problems, especially with alergies and anemia.

Of we four meat eaters, NONE of us called in sick once during the four months I was there, NONE of us would be considered "fat" by any standards, and NONE of us had chronic health problems or alergies beyond minor hay-fever.

[aruanan]

Of we four meat eaters, NONE of us called in sick once during the four months I was there, NONE of us would be considered "fat" by any standards, and NONE of us had chronic health problems or allergies beyond minor hay-fever.

And the nation with citizens who continue to have one of the longest lifespans in history and an increasingly longer lifespan each year is a non-vegetarian country. While it is possible to get one's full complement of essential amino acids on a vegetarian diet, one can't as easily get all one's vitamins on vegan diet without supplementation. This, in and of itself, shows that veganism is unnatural because it doesn't supply the body with what it actually needs.