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We're not automatons that you can throw any random mix of protein and carbohydrates into as fuel, and food choices are not "logical". Being forced to eat insects like an animal is humiliating and disgusting. Regular meat is delicious. Most people will never consider eating bugs, they're synonymous with disease, filth, and poverty.

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Please don't straw-man here; I never said you can throw a random mix of protein and carbs together as fuel. A plant-based diet is recognized by dieticians around the world as suitable for virtually all stages of life

Meat is a problem, too - for your health and for the environment - not to mention the animals themselves.

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Meat is more nutritious and more tasty, and it's great to eat either seasoned and not. What is definitely not beneficial for health is a heavily processed and salted mush of plant based meat facsimile, or whatever frankenmeat they're trying to conjure in those labs. It's also another step towards you being more heavily dependent on enormous multinational industries.

Meat is still a problem, for all the areas I've listed above. If you're willing to neglect that reality for something tasting good, you're absolutely right that food choices aren't logical (at least in your personal case).

You're also welcome to provide evidence that something like Beyond beef is less healthy than it's flesh counterpart. With zero cholesterol in any plant-based product, though, I have a feeling you're going to encounter some difficulty.

Americans used to consider lobsters disgusting: they look like sea cockroaches after all. Yet look at where they are now.

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