Plant -Based Diets

A deer eats a plant that humans can't. It's called grass.They convert that plant into protein. It's called meat. The deer have a specialized stomach which has evolved along with the ecosystem in which they live. So do humans. We have co-evolved along with deer. We could just let the grass grow and die un-utilized. Millions and mllions of acres of it. Or else humans could learn to graze and incorporate grass into our diets. Or we could just let people not get enough protein. Or we could utilize the grass by eating ungulates as we have done as a species for millenia. If you eat an ungulate you have a "plant-based diet", it just went through a conversion process. I personally think it's great that people are turning away from industrial meat production and wish to eat more plants. But beware of industrial plant production, with all its toxic, unsustainable inputs. The point being, it is the way production is organized, the form it takes, that is the problem. In Iowa they grow corn for ethanol and cow food and that plant production is ruining the planet. And creating Trump loving Evangelicals.