Kendall Clark wrote:
>
> a vegetarian diet is pretty
> widely conceded to be more healthy for its consumer than a meat-rich
> diet.
Vegetarian diet vs meat-RICH diet. The comparison limps. What about a vegetarian diet vs a _mostly_ vegetarian diet seith with limited amounts of meat? (And of course you also dodge the full Vegan thing: no dairy products, no eggs, no leather belts etc.
Also, the general adoption of a vegetarian diet would be as destructive to the great plains as a meat-rich diet. They grow too much grain there now for fattening meat, but they would also grow too much grain in providing grain for everyone to be a vegetarian. The great plains should not be cultivated: they should be pasture only. There are other parts of the world where any production but meat and dairy products would be even more disastrous. If the human species is to survive grass, etc. will have to be an important source of protein -- and that requires that the protein in grass be processed through other animals to make it available for human digestion.
Carrol