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If you want to maintain that ability to function with a first rate intelligence, then I suggest you keep your meaty eats around. The seeming lack of intelligence often observed in our meat-rejecting friends is not all from the "herbal supplements" that often make up part of their diet. Unfortunately for those who feel a meat-free life is more enlightened existence, their diet lacks vital amino acids and complex proteins vital to the proper production of brain cells and neurotransmitters. I try to follow the lead of my omnivorous friend Ecopimp, who lives closer to the earth than any of us city people would be comfortable with, who knows the patterns of life and death and humanity's place within that chain (yes we are animals, and thus part of the food chain too, entitled to our needs but not to gluttony or waste). We should work to improve the footprint of all we eat, connect with the growers and farmers who make up our local food chain, and to mitigate the damage of our demands with efforts for the greater good. And why not have the full brain functions of a properly nourished body to help propel these efforts at improving the world. That seems like the only humane and responsible approach for all its citizens.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Nutrition-Dieting-939/Vit-B-complex-proteins.htm

There, in my opinion are only two places to get a good
Burger. Whataburger in Texas and Blake's Lotaburger in New Mexico. These are the Best. There is one burger place in Ft.Worth Texas that is not a chain but should be world famous, it is Kincaid's Grocery. Do not even tell me about a Cheeseburger until you have reviewed one there.

Well I love a good burger as well and wouldn't think about not eating one. But here's a suggestion to "balance" out your desire for a burger and the ecological cost behind making one. For every burger you eat, try and recycle more, stop drinking bottled water (think of the landfil pollution), try and walk or ride your bike to save on the pollution from your car or mass transit bus or train. Start using a "green" grocery bag, instead of plastic or paper (now imagine if we all did this simple thing). Shop at a farmers market for your produce, instead of having them shipped across the country or half way around the world. And buy organic, where there is no run off into our rivers and streams from the pesticides and herbicides. I think if you (we) all do a few of these things we can all enjoy our guilt free burger.

Having grown up on a farm...how come nobody of the vegan/vegetarian community ever mentions the scores of animals i.e. bird young and eggs, mice, voles, insects, killed by plows, discs, cultivators etc. while growing the grain to make that 12 grain organic loaf of bread? Doesn't matter if you are a vegan, vegetarian, carnivore, herbivore or only eat fish....something is dying to feed you.
Cheers, TB.

What saddens me about the prevalent dialogues I've been seeing in regard to anti-meat-eating and pro-meat-eating is that they're so black-and-white, and any post discussion of the latest article or information always end up centering around an "always" or "never" conversation.

That Bittman article implored us to eat less meat, not to stop eating meat. Americans eat way too much meat. Plain and simple. You can still eat meat and enjoy the hell out of it, in fact, you enjoy more when you have it less!

And, IMO, not all meat is a terror on the environment. Eat less, grassfed, humanely raised meat, and you'll be easing your cost to the environment and also, though the meat is more expensive, you'll be paying the same because you're eating less of it!

Everything's always reduced to it's lowest common denominator. No wonder people are so afraid of environmentalism when it's always wrongly interpreted as Do or Die.

Yeah. It was sort of an in-post "unicorn chaser."

For the record: As burgermeister general here on AHT, I added the burger photo into Lauren's post. As she said: "That's kind of a mean trick, you putting in an image and then referring to it in a comment ;)"