Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And some of your claims are extraordinary. >What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And some of your claims are extraordinary. >What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat? It's not a "modern obsession". Varying degrees of vegetarianism have been part of human culture since ancient times. People, especially Americans, are eating far more meat than they did 50 or 100 years ago. There is a greater variation, but the mean is definitely rising. >Meat is good. It's healthy Meat consumption (particularly red meat and processed meat) has been linked to higher rates of cancer, cardio-vascular disease, and overall mortality in a dose dependent manner. Furthermore, some vegetarian populations are extremely long-lived compared to the their omnivorous peers. >it's very sustainable Meat eating is not sustainable at our current technological level. Mass production of animals to be slaughtered for our consumption accounts for the majority of human-caused methane production, causes the majority of anti-biotic resistant disease, requires many times the energy expenditure that growing plant-based foods do and is an enormous threat to bio-diversity. If all the world ate as much meat as Americans, it would be a disaster in terms of public health and the environment both. >* it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, Protein != intrinsically good. >and it's delicious. Taste is subjective, but a lot of people would agree with you.