Everyone is entitled to eat whatever they like, but I've always balked at the notion, proposed by vegan propagandist, that not eating meat is somehow healthier than consuming the flesh of other animals. When confronted with such nonsense in person, I always point out that humans became what they are-- sentient, thinking, clever, highly-evolved primates-- by including in their diet large amounts of meat. Any honest anthropologist will tell you this is true.

Yes, our methods of raising the huge amounts of cattle, poultry, pork and other meat-animals necessary to feed over-populated Earth are detestable; animal rights activist have right and reason to cry foul. These are two separate arguments, however: method of production and benefit of ingestion. It sounds cold and cruel, and it is, but humans have an indisputable history and need of killing animals to nourish our protein-demanding brains. Incomplete proteins, in the form of nuts, are not fully capable of fulfilling this demand.

I only mention all of this because of an article published recently which details just how detrimental not eating meat can be. Vegans take notice: not eating meat can cause shrinkage where it really matters. I don't want to insult your intelligence or anything, so I'll let the scientist of the Australian study do it.

Certainly it is important to have a balanced diet, and part of that balance is meat. Tender, juicy, freshly-killed meat.