an argument for optimum diet that is not vege vs omnivore

[Diana]

If you can digest it you can derive benefit, the vitamins and minerals will be assimilated and the remainder will be processed and eliminated.

The body may be able to derive some benefit from foods that are processed and unhealthy, but what about the negative affects? In processing and eliminating poisons to the body, the liver and kidneys will become overtaxed at the very least. And some processed foods I dare say have no value at all.

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.

One argument can be that this is a self-centered view. What of the food (the animals who are killed); and what of the planet (rain forests disappearing to graze cattle for one season to supply MacDonlad's and the like; pollution generated from factories producing lifeless, unhealthy boxed "food")?