Dear Blowtorch,
Thanks for disagreeing with me, but please allow me to inform you that you are not disagreeing with me, you a disageeing with the body of medical science. I simply am relaying the medical facts based on my research over many years.
For example from this MD reference:
http://www.raysahelian.com/vegetarian.html
Quote:
If you have a vegetarian diet, you are probably getting lots of important carotenoids, flavonoids, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial nutrients. However, as a vegetarian or vegan, no matter how healthy you eat, you may still be missing some key ingredients if you don't consume animal products. Nutrients that are found in very small amounts in a plant based diet and could possibly be beneficial as supplements for vegetarians, particularly vegans, include.....
It may be possible that cultures with years of experience in vegan diets have found ways to harmonize their diet to insure they get all key nutrients required for human health, however, this is not the natural bio-requirement for health, rather a diet based on spiritual v. human bioscience.
My comments are not meant to dishonor anyones spiritual lifestyle, but to simply point out that, at this stage of human evolution, our bodies to require nutrients that are naturally found from animals products.
A deep search of this topic tends to support the medical claims.
I admire people who live a strict vegan lifestyle, but they are going against, according to science, the natural requirements of the human body, and they must seek alternatives, via the food chain or supplements, to compensate for their honorable lifestyle.
Then again, an argument could be made that, if humans stopped eating all animals, that their bodies would evolve and adapt, which is also a very good thing! Perhaps come cultures have evolved toward vegan more than others?