Originally Posted by luciferase75

Because I like meat. I eat raw fish too, because I prefer it that way. I eat rare steak, because I like it bloody.

Beans are not healthier. If you were to find the wild-type legume of your choice and eat it off the stalk, it would either make you puke your guts out or kill you. Beans are easy to eat for us because we've bred them down and we know how to cook them, but in a natural setting we would not eat them. Please do not throw facts out like that for which there are no grounds.

"Healthier" is still a subjective term anyways. A few years ago eggs were bad, now they are good....or are they bad again? Maybe avocado is good, or maybe it has cholesterol and is fatty. What about soy? You hear all kinds of crap about soy as well, both good and bad and really bad. Notice that's another legume that we have attempted to dumb down by boiling and processing. The veggie's precious tofu is based on a plant that would kill you in a natural state.

Even general diet is a variable. Some people say we cook meat to make it easier to digest denatured proteins, while others say raw is best for you. Do you really know? Do I really know? Does the average nutritionist with a bachelors really know?

Also, if I'm not mistaken, beans are a different type of protein than meat and cannot sustain humans indefinitely. I know I'm right on the different proteins, that's common sense since bean is not animal, but I do recall some mention of them not being able to sustain a human on an otherwise regular diet. If you ate beans and veggies and all that, but no meat, you would be missing iron and numerous other essentials that you pick up in meat, which is why my wife passed out several times when she tried to be a veggie. She got back on meat and she has been healthy ever since. In fact, even chicken over the long term has made her sick. She gets some steak and goes on a steak craving for weeks. You take supplements on a veggie diet for a reason - BECAUSE IT IS NOT NATURAL ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU ALIVE.

Let me add that if we were meant to eat veggies alone, we would have bovine teeth or similar. Flat with ridges designed to grind. Instead we have omnivore teeth. Grinding at the back and cutting at the front, but still with sharp edges for tearing meat to shreds. That's not shredding broccoli, that's shredding red meat. Our canines are short but they still exist, and as such our natural diet is still omnivorous. Our nearest relative genetically is also omnivorous, with more pronounced canines than we have.