Every diet camp can cherry-pick studies showing that the other diets are bad for you, but how can anyone argue meat is unhealthy, when human beings ate meat over tens of thousands of years of our evolutionary history?
Obviously eating anything in excess is going to be bad for us, but I can't buy that meat in and of itself is bad for us.
As for saving animals, how is a vegan living in a mansion, given the habitat loss such a lifestyle entails, killing fewer animals than a meat eater who is living more modestly? Vegans seem to think the only impact humans have on animals comes by way of eating them.
I simply do not have the palate for a vegan diet, and the only thing that happened to me by attempting it was that I ate even fewer overall calories, and my strength levels diminished. The most important aspect of diet is COMPLIANCE, and I just couldn't comply to the vegan diet.
But I don't feel guilty - since I live a minimalist lifestyle compared to most Westerners. That said, most Westerners have a greater impact on the planet than the average global citizen - and that's due to lifestyle. Not eating meat isn't going to change that.
As long as I'm living modestly, I'm not going to fret over specifically EATING animals. We ALL kill animals as human beings [and especially as Westerners], whether we eat them or not.
Unless I literally have no choice, I'll continue to eat meat.
