Billy, you bring up an important point about eating food, and I will piggy back it with a discussion yesterday, and another one today.

Meats provide many important nutrients. Beef particiularly--The B vitamins for sure, but also zinc though in small amounts. It is the best absorbed iron source. The best zinc source is oysters---- Otherwise meats including all kinds of animal sources and eggs supply amino acids in a complete form. That is every bite contains all the essential amino acids that we require. Plants contain a little of this and a little of that, and need to combined in carefully determined combinations to be sure that all the essential amino acids are aquired on a daily basis.

One cannot become a haphazard vegetarian or vegan. I know of one child permanently disabled due to a misguided mother that fed a poor diet. By two the child was disfunctional-- lack of meats and proper amount of fats/oils. I wonder if that mother thought it was worth her choices. ( I had to avoid her in fear I might say something she deserved.)

That is the glory of meats in regards to protein and fats.

As far as micronutrients, the meats provide many macronutrients that are not in vegies, and are a reflection of the feed they are given to eat. Had a college friend send me an article about the newspaper material included in the feed for cattle. Really!

Otherwise there is the pleasure of biting into a juicy hamburger and that many of us cannot handle vegetable matter in any appreciable amount due to poor insulin responses.

What we eat matters. How it is fed matters. How it is housed matters.