I will agree that red meat is very hard for some people to digest, with cattle being the worst. A diet heavy in whole grains, vegetables, low-fat dairy, and fish is truly the healthiest. A small amount of poultry and red meat finishes up the “ideal diet” with the rest of what your body needs. Vegans have the shortest lifespan of any diet category, shorter even than “meat and potato” types, and time and time again we see people who “magically” start feeling better once a small amount of meat is added back into their diets.

That is because lions consume mostly meat and it is designed in a way that the meat doesnt have to be broken down as much and passes through faster than humans do. In fact, one of the first things you learn as a nutritionist is that the ultimate healthy lifestyle would be one of which requires no meat in it at all.

Also, like G said, the only vitamin that would be missing would be B12. Which can be found in other sources. Anyway, if you really want to know- instead of just going by what you heard, or making it up on the fly (which by your comment looks like you did both) just do a little research. The only people left who are still saying the things you are saying are the painfully obvious ones who we can all tell has no clue about what they are talking about.

I don’t waste my time volunteering for PETA, though. I volunteer for local shelters where I can see that I am improving animals’ lives.

*shakes fist at PETA* Curse you, PETA! I want to enjoy my Ben & Jerry’s ice cream without having to worry whether or not it’ll give me AIDS!

Well, I don’t Love it, but I accept that it’s necessary in most rural areas of the UK, and that 90% of anti-hunt protesters, are PeTA members (ie, good old fashioned retards), and 85% are Urbanites.

PeTA – People Euthanizing Treatable Animals.

Educate yourself! Medical research is important for humans and the researchers do their best to minimize the number of animals used AND the negative effects of the testing!

Still, I’m anti-PETA. This graph seems too generous in the “helping animals” slice in my opinion since every single time they show up, their zealous ignorance drags our realistic, local animal rights battles back a decade. They’re the only force on this planet that can make people who dedicated their lives to reforming horse racing DEFEND the horse racing industry! SO over the top, SO full of ignorance!

Dead or aliiiiiiive!!!

I hear they’re a secret society who develop graphs about counter-culture groups – in order to save humanity (and animals, evidently).

As for animal testing, it is an essential part of medical science. PeTA likes to say that humans and animals are too different for animal testing to be valid, but that belief is scientifically unsound. While we are not exactly alike, we are similar enough for there to be significant correlations. Physiology is not that different between most mammals. Biochemistry is basically the same. And anyone who has ever taken a comparative anatomy class knows that anatomy correlates pretty well between certain species, as well. We have numerous medicines and medical devices due to animal testing. We have entire areas of medicine because of animal testing: namely neuroscience. Entire classes of drugs have been developed in animal models (namely Rituxin, which revolutionized the treatment of lymphoma). Then again, there are the medical devices, such as IV drips that were perfected in animals… and even USED FOR the BENEFIT of animals by vets. So yeah, that iv drip that administered the pain medication that Ingrid Newkirk readily accpeted to treat her broken wrist… tested on animals.

But then again, what about those PeTA members who proudly state that they don’t use animal products of any kind? Take for instance PeTA VP Dan Matthews: who states this very thing. When I recently spoke to him at a lecture, he said that he is very proud of the fact that he uses NO animal products of ANY kind. I then asked him if he has ever been vaccinated. He responded yes, looking very nervous. Well, many vaccinations are manufactured in EGGS! So next time you get the flu shot, thank the chickens that died to make sure that you don’t.

Anyone who thinks that animal research is outdated or invalid needs to take Biology 101 and shut the f up.

Should you still decide that animal research is wrong, don’t come to my ER. Because due to your personal beliefs, I can’t offer you much in the way of treatment… except maybe a glass of water. Good luck with that.