Message #40750

[mccoy]

@ Eric: I never ate meat nor fish for 45 years now and I'm reasonably healthy and muscular at age 62. I work out with weights and do some aerobic exercise. Ditto for many other vegetarian people.

The importance of meat should not be exaggerated, dairy products and soy products have a high DIAAS score, rich of essential digestible aminoacid.

Bottom line to me is that it's an individual choice. Not everyone is organically, biologically or mentally ready to abandon meat. Although if one want it badly enough, it's possible to become a vegetarian very gradually, without eliminating fleshly food abruptly.

On the spiritual standpoint, meat should be abandoned, although that would be probably an advantage which can be felt at high levels of advancement. Probably.