an argument for optimum diet that is not vege vs omnivore

[omcasey]

One of the greatest/simplest things I ever heard anyone say about food was, "If it makes you salivate, eat it." ---BKS Iyengar

As a careworker, who works principally with people of an older generation, whose ideas about diet and a healthy diet are very different than those of our own I can appreciate this. If it makes you salivate it means you can digest it, and simply, most immediately, this is the important matter. If you can digest it you can derive benefit, the vitamins and minerals will be assimilated and the remainder will be processed and eliminated.

When this is true, it means there is an existing, potential symbiotic relationship between you and this food which is a part of the learning experience in this lifetime. The process of learning -all the many avenues and opportunities which arise and supply exactly the growth space needed through these relationships is the central item of importance. It is not the various acts that you/me/we are doing now [eating meat, not eating meat, etc..] that is truly the big thing, but the learning that is coming to us through them; we are ever in motion, ever learning, ever growing, always in motion. When this is realized - nothing is static - what argument can there be.