teaser, but no humans are dropping dead from vegetarian diets. It's not like it's a new thing or a fad diet and we just haven't discovered how dangerous it is yet. I'm not arguing against the need for protein, just that vegetarians get enough of it without going out of our way to try. Humans seem to thrive just fine on vegetarian diets, probably because we don't subsist purely on peanuts.

I really agree with gonwtwindo here, all sides have really good arguments and all that, but in the end it seems it doesn't matter all that much for the person consuming the diet. Studies show that vegetarians don't live that much longer on average really, at best we get a couple years more than meat eaters. I'm only not eating animals because I care about them and could never kill one myself, not for health or political reasons.