What a bizarre article. Basically shows that if you don't take any animal protein, then you probably need vitamin supplements to go with your vegan diet in or

What a bizarre article. Basically shows that if you don't take any animal protein, then you probably need vitamin supplements to go with your vegan diet in order to achieve optimal nutrition. That's hardly news. But it also shows, without trumpeting it so loudly (maybe because of their meat industry sponsors), that the average French diet could well do with a lot less meat (in as much as most of the target populations studied already get MORE than 100% of their protein requirements from animal sources). Personally, I'm going to stick with my almost vegetarian diet (I probably average 2 servings of meat a month, at most, but get most of my protein requirements from eggs and cheese, while the bulk of calories come from grain, vegetables, fruits and nuts). To me the reason to cut back on animal products isn't nutrition, or health (moderate animal product consumption is clearly not a big health negative), but environmental and ethical: the way most meat, especially, but also dairy and eggs, is produced is environmentally unsustainable, and ethically abhorrent.