Morally is another reason too I hate seeing animals die. Check out slaughter houses it's fucking heart breaking but I do love meat and we need excess protein. Just didn't know if anyone ventured down this rout, apparently good for a lot of reasons gut health, anti carcinogenic, heart healthy etc etc but you would need a lot of different recipes to get balanced nutrients
I am very unwilling to go deep on this subject unless face to face cause way too much typing but I'll drop a couple quick thoughts.
I have no problem with anyone choosing to eat whatever they personally want as long as they don't push it on me. Nothing personal here against anyone with a different view, just ramblin.
Farming plants fucks over and kills horrendous amounts of animals, that's not confined to slaughter houses. I don't have the stats on hand but they are out there if you search so for me the moral arguement is a wash. Most V's who argue this side have no apparent concern for the billions of animals killed and their environments destroyed by modern plant farming via machinery and chemicals. Smaller animals, insects, fish alone by the billions of tons of animal matter. Let alone the larger or more cuddly beasts.
Back to research and bias again for about the third time in as many days here but please consider that when viewing any "research". I do not recall EVER seeing a single study on this that was well done or meets the criteria of the scientific method very well that was not flawed due to variables. Epidemiological studies, studies based on self reporting, studies that do not take the entire diet into consideration should not be used to prop up any arguement for either side if we are trying to be 100% certain. Fuck that often cited China Study V's often like to bring up, maybe they should read the whole fucking thing before they try to tell anyone what it says.
And fuck PETA too, ever check out how much killing they do and endorse? Virtue signaling and bullshit spreading at it's worst. What kind of statement is "All protein comes from plants. Fact". Weak and ambiguous and meant to mislead, that's what kind of statement that is.
I assert that all protein comes from carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulphur. So what? And what now PETA?
The rest of that statement sucks too. I have a strong arguement for every single line in it. "Most people" are not extremely healthy either so what does the rest of that give us for value?
Carry on folks, my bbq is at temp, gotta go