Originally Posted by
KingZ
There are all kinds of complete proteins from plant sources. Anyway, you don't think red meat is extremely bad for you?
No, I don't. 'Extremely bad' is what got me (my ancestors) here in the first place. I think free range beef is fantastic, you'd know what I mean if you've had it. Also, I'm not sure that essential amino acids is the only thing that meat gives us. This is pure hypothesis on my part, but my guess is that our immune system development is also helped by eating meat-based protein. Awful lot of antigens in meat.
No offense to any pure vegans or vegetarians out there, but I've seen way too many who look terribly unhealthy. But I do think our society eats, on the whole, far *more* red meat than we actually require.
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