Genetics - or food faddies

The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9241088/Vegetarians-may-be-genetically-disposed-to-avoid-meat.html suggests that people who 'don't like the smell of meat' may be genetically programmed that way.  Fine, wonderful, but they should not be allowed to insist that everyone should become vegetarian, or imply that a vegetarian diet is in some way superior for the health of the nation.

Personally, I am allergic to nickel.  Nickel is found in a huge range of vegetables, and so if I and many other people with a similar problem were to eat those foods, the result is an extremely unpleasant and persistent eczema.  How healthy is that?

Why do we never see any articles about the negative effects of a vegan diet, or the need, especially for small children to have a good intake of first class protein - animal rather than vegetable?

The human food processing system is designed for a little of everything, a mixed diet containing meat, vegetables, fruit and dairy products.  Start with the teeth - we have teeth designed for stripping meat from the bone, and teeth designed for grinding.  We only have one stomach, so cannot digest vegetables in the way that true herbivores do.  However, we need roughage found in abundance in the vegetable world to keep our intestines working efficiently and healthily.

The countryside needs meat eaters.  If we all rejected the wholesome and tasty meat from our local producers, there would be no cows, sheep, pigs or game animals in the fields.  Is this what we really want to see?  As for the laboratory produced meat - NO THANK YOU.  How can anyone talk about a "healthy" diet when they are including bacteria and other chemicals by choice?  If you need artificial meat to make a meal, try replacing it with the real thing.

Perhaps our grannies were right when they used the old cliches - "One man's meat is another man's poison" and "a little of what you fancy does you good."

For me, every meal should start life in a field.  Think about it - naturally produced meat, fresh caught fish with fresh local vegetables and fruit.  Delicious.