In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

Firstly, my personal experiences with having tried to have a vegetarian diet once when I was young and once when I was in my teens were unpleasant experiences.

Yeah, I can relate. My years of eating meat were unpleasant experiences too.

I eventually found out that there is a certain blood type that can't do without animal protein,

I know a lot of people who justify eating animals because of that blood type book, but actually, that's an unproven theory.

It is true that some people have more trouble than others when transitioning to a plant-based diet. There are ways to resolve this, that have been extensively outlined in this thread.

By the way, eggs and dairy products are animal protein, and nothing died. Be sure to get free-range eggs and humanely produced dairy, though, as there is just as much cruelty in the egg/dairy industry as in the meat industry.

and my understanding is, if some people need it then that removes the ethical imperative

That's a very big IF. It's all based on a particular book, which, as I said, is theoretical.

Dr. Gabriel Cousins is one of the leading experts on the vegetarian diet. He readily acknowledges that about 40% of people who attempt to go vegan have cravings for meat. He offers clear solutions to this and has had nearly 100% success with people who thought they 'needed' meat. They didn't. They just needed better guidelines on how to adjust their vegetarian diet.

and all people should be able to eat meat.

Even if it were true that people with blood type O 'need' to eat animals (which has never been proven but is only a theory), then how does it follow that "all" people "should be able to eat meat"?

I also knew a girl in my halls who tried to become a vegetarian for five years and her blood stream 'collapsed' and she now has to go into hospital and have it injected into her blood stream.

Horrors!

I knew a woman who ate meat for many years, and got cancer.

Come to think of it, I actually know lots of people who ate meat for many years and got cancer.

I knew a man who ate meat for many years, and died of a heart attack.

Come to think of it, I actually know lots of people who ate meat for many years and died from a heart attack.

I knew a man who ate meat for many years, and suffered with diabetes.

Come to think of it, I actually know lots of people who ate meat for many years and got diabetes.

I knew a man who ate meat for many years, and suffered with ___________.

Come to think of it, I actually know lots of people who ate meat for many years and got ___________.