After reading the article I picked out this sentence: > The best fighters in the ancient world were essentially vegetarian. "Essentially vegetarian" is not th

After reading the article I picked out this sentence: > The best fighters in the ancient world were essentially vegetarian. "Essentially vegetarian" is not the same as "vegetarian". I would bet most endurance athletes are "essentially vegetarian" in that they eat way more grains than proteins, but they are not vegetarian in the sense than they have a reason (moral or otherwise) to abstain from meat.