I'm having a hard time following your logic regarding what animals deserve to live and which ones you're fine killing for no reason at all.
You must have me mistaken with someone who has a mistaken identity with god, I don't know what anybody or what any animal
deserves. It's only a question if I had to kill something that is more sentients versus something that is less sentient then I would go for the less sentient thing, thus killing plants seems more sensible. Anyways you keep bringing up insects, who in the hell said you should kill insects? That's just a byproduct of farming, any kind of farming that you do, because many factory farmed animals are eating grains, which have pesticides sprayed on them, the insect killing is definitely higher in animal agriculture.
Yes superior nutrient profiles are found in animal foods. A beef liver gram for gram is going to have a far better nutrient profile than any plant food that exists today.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Everything from its amino acid profile to the preformed vitamins and minerals that are more easily assimilated by the human body.
Considering the digestion time of meat vs plants, that claim definitely doesn't stand up to the evidence.
Are you going to absorb more vitamin A from retinol found in beef liver, or from beta-carotene found in tubers?
The question is do I need more? Is there any evidence that the vitamin A I am getting from carrot juice isn't just the amount I need?
Heme iron found in muscle meat vs nonheme iron found in spinach?
Oh you better be careful with pointing that out because heme-iron has been associated with cancer risk.
The protein found in animal foods is far more complete than in plants.
Therefore, animals must be killed for you to eat. Talk about baboon brained logic.
B12 is super easy to get if you're eating animal products. One serving of wild caught sardines will net you 132% of your RDA of B12. I just had bloodwork done a month ago and my B12 status is in the upper end of normal limits without supplementation while eating wild caught game and grassfed beef/pastured eggs from my cousin's farm.
Yes it's super easy that why B12 deficiency was found in a large part of the US population, non-vegans I might add. And it's wonderful for you that you can absorb it, but there are people who can't absorb B12 through the digestive process for whatever reason, that's why sublinguals exist.
I'm lucky enough to have access to nutritious food grown by people who give a damn about the quality of it. Your claim of "rubbish" really seems like it's beyond a simple misunderstanding. It actually appears to be willful ignorance at this point.
Ignorance? You speak of ignorance? You refer to animals as
Animals are basically bioconverters. Many of them spend upwards of 16+ hours per day eating, turning readily available, low nutrient plant matter into meat/organs that are nearly complete in their nutritional offerings. It's amazing that a cow can turn inedible grass, silage, and hay into an easily digestible food that can sustain our bodies.
In other words you don't see animals as living beings deserving of their own life, you only see them as what they can do for you, by dying. That is the peak of ignorance.