One plea for vegetarianism.

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Originally Posted by stretchypanda

That doesn't mean the nutrients aren't there when the processed meat is put in front of a human for consumption. Of course nutrients have to be replenished, but saying that metabolism completely eliminates those nutrients negates the whole reasoning behind eating meat except that it tastes rlyrly gud, which is good enough reason to eat anything, but we sort of die without proper nutrition.

That's why people have to eat vegetables as well as meat in order to have a balanced diet. The only vegetal nutrients you'll get from meat are those that were in the process of being digested when the animal was killed, or those that were somehow stored somewhere. Only fat-soluble vitamins, of the nutrients and vitamins that cows eat, will be retained within their tissues, afaik.

But in any case when you say that if there were no vegetal nutrients in meat then that would "negate the whole reasoning behind eating meat", that makes no sense - the reason people eat meat is not to get vegetal nutrients, but to get animal nutrients, since humans are by nature of omnivorous metabolism. It's in our nature to utilize dead animal tissues to live.

Vegetarian cultures, such as that of India, have over time developed alternate diets that allow them to compensate for a lack of animal tissue, but technically it is what a wild human would have eaten, back in the days before civilization.

-fs