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A person does not need to eat meat.
People absolutely do need to eat meat, specifically cooked meat in order to be intelligent. It's what made cavemen smarter than other animals. Also the recent rise in average height and IQ from good nutrition is in part directly related to cheap meat from factory farming.
You are absolutely 100% wrong on this. And so wrong that it’s hilarious. Please don’t reproduce.
Oh, the irony.
We needed to eat meat to get to this point. We can stop now.
Iron is just a mineral, where do you think the cows get it? Plenty of plants have iron. Meat is also typically a lot more expensive than rice and beans. Like you want to eat meat, that's cool, just stop acting like it's for your health when meat is literally a carcinogen.
Again: where do you think the cows get it, lol. Not from nails.
Unless you're a hunter there's no way meat is cheaper, wtf are you talking about?
wtf you can? Where I am chicken breast is USD $11.64 per kg!
Compare that to beans. Where I live I can get a kg of dried pinto beans for $3.50, and with 67% as much protein per serving as chicken it would cost $5.25 to get the same amount of protein as a kg of chicken breast.
What's the price of 1kg of dried beans where you live? That'd be a more apt comparison.
Beans are just about the best source of plant protein, yeah. Grains and nuts have protein too, but nuts are definitely pricier and grains have pretty bad carb/protein ratios. If you can't eat beans for whatever reason it'd be a serious commitment to be vegan! No shame in that.
As an aside, I actually have nothing against eating bugs like crickets and mealworms etc. It makes me a bad vegan but I don't really care about whether or not bugs have feelings lol