The question of whether plant-based dieting benefits mankind is one that has been asked for many decades, but even more so in recent years. When it comes to food, people can become very defensive of their personal choices. While one side considers any consumption of meat to be unnecessarily cruel or inhumane, the other side believes removing meat entirely will cause us to lack nutrition and become sickly. However, this issue is not “black-and-white,” or one which needs to be solved in absolutes. The fact of the matter is that Americans eat double the amount of animal protein than what’s necessary. With that said, countries that lack the resources that we do cannot drop meat products so easily. The lowering of overall meat consumption would be highly beneficial in sustaining life as we know it, however, vegetarianism for everyone in the world is simply unrealistic.
