Paul Richards - What the vegetarians refuse to acknowledge is that human beings are omnivores ... hence our omnivorous teeth. Omnivores eat a wide variety of food -- soup to nuts, rutabagas to steak. It is not healthy for us to neglect a food group we are designed to consume, that provides essential nutrients that food provides best. There are a whole host of medical problems that show up in people (and esp children) who do not eat meat. With a lot of difficulty, vegs try to work around these problems, ignoring what their bodies are telling them. Still, if they want to restrict their own diets, that's their choice, but they need to shut up where other people are concerned.

But they won't, because a part of human nature appears to be the desire for some people to control other people and to label that "for your own good". Fortunately, we can still vote with our pocketbooks ... for now.