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Old 06-08-2010, 07:07 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks View Post
Meat provides a lot of nutrients that are hard/almost impossible to find in natural vegetation. A lot of these nutrients, especially and excess of protein, led to our brain growth, which then led to higher intelligence, etc.
Could you let us know what these magical hard/almost-impossible-to-come-by nutrients are? I'm not sure I know about them, and I know a lot about nutrition.

There is a lot of protein in plant matter, especially in legumes, nuts, seeds.

And the B12 issue with vegans? It has mostly to do with the problem with pesticides and cleaning our food too well. Where do you think herbivores get their B12?

What other nutrients are you talking about?
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