Michel Boucher wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Going vegitarian is not healthier.
>
> Actually, for an adult human, the eating of meat is not required.

"Not required" does not imply "healthier". Exactly. Eating meat makes
a nutritious diet easier and that means a healthy meat-free diet is more
work. It can be done. Do it without a specific plan and it's less
healthy.

> Vegan perhaps pushes the envelope but ovo-lacto vegetarian is fine
> if one takes care to balance the meals.

Lacto-ovo vegetarian is healthy with a bit of attention for the same
reason Atkins Induction is healthy with a bit of attention. Neither
pushes to an extreme that requires careful planning to be healthy.

> FWIW, Weight Watchers was pushing Bota burgers a while back with
> the advert that it tasted like meat. When I pointed out that
> vegetarians were not looking for things that tasted like meat, all
> all I got was a blank stare ...

It's like going to atheists and pointing out there are other approaches
than monotheism. They have no idea what you're talking about. It's
beyond their kenn.