If there ever was a severe downturn in this country that left people to fend for themselves, most of these lunatics would be dead the first winter and the rest of them would actually eat what is available - meat. People, primarily city-dwellers, are allowed to have these fantastic, high and mighty intellectual ideals because they live in an artificial environment that allows them to live on vegetables and supplements. As long as the artificial environment continues humming along, they will be just fine. If that artificial environment collapsed, they would be hunting and killing and eating the innocent little animals like all other human beings.
There was a thread a few months back elsewhere on Bladeforums. You know, I don't care if someone wants to be a vegetarian, that's their business. But when they start infringing on the rights of other Americans because they think animals are equal to us or better than us, they need to be socially and politically marginalized and if they get violent, they need to be investigated and legally hunted down with the same fervor used to curtail kkk and neo-nazi activities. (Yes, I refuse to even capitalize the letters for those people.)
In that thread, people pulled all sorts of information in equal part out of their ass as well as thin air. The scientific fact of the matter is, just look at your teeth, we are omnivores, everything else is choice as to which way you want to go. People can cite junk science all they want, we are omnivores and you don't need to cite a scientist or college professor, doctor, lawyer or Indian chief to know what the deal is. How can you trust science any more? They're bought and paid for by special interest groups.
When Dr. Atkins died, and this should not be viewed as agreeing with his diet, this group of "doctors," using the term extremely lightly, viewed his autopsy and concluded that a man that fell on the ice and suffered a brain injury died because he was a fat bastard. (When you consider the injury he suffered and the time spent lying in a hospital bed and his age, etc., fat had nothing to do with it and these people have a funny way of calling people "fat" unless they look like they just walked out of Bergen-Belsen.)
After it was all over, it was found out that this group of "doctors" was funded by or agreed with PETA.
Believe your mirror and whatever you like to eat or drink, do it in moderation.