cydewaze
Refugee
Sorry to butt in the forum, but I can't stand it when organizations like PETA post these kind of things when it's just not true...
Yea, ofcourse there's bat fats and cholesterol in meat, but that doesn't mean you get 'healthy' when you stop eating it! Eat it in decent dosages of around 100-200 g a day and you get all the healthy parts of it too! think of the proteins, iron and other mineralsm vitamins and provitamins!
Sorry to butt in as well but that's meat industry hype. Not only are none of the things you mentioned exclusive to meat, but animal proteins are far worse for you than protein from vegetable sources. With the exception of vitamin B12, meat contains NOTHING that you couldn't get healthier somewhere else.
I won't even get into how animal protein (including dairy) leeches calcium from your body, nor how most people get waaaay more protein than they need anyway, but there's probably a reason that vegetarians live an average of 13 years longer than non vegetarians.
The meat and dairy industries have spent billions of dollars trying to convince us that we need to give them our money. Ain't true, and never was.
I'm no fan of PETA, but you don't have to be to want to stay healthy.