I hate Vegetarians.

The FSA recommends a 55g of protein a day for the average adult over 19. You would be hard pushed to find a higher figure for this, especially in reference to recommended protein intake in women. Have you ever even heard of a vegetarian with a protein deficiency?

I never said vegetarians are deficient in protein but rather have to work harder to gain as much as someone with a regualr diet. Especially vegans.

Protein is essential in a diet...especially for growth and tissue repair..and by being a vegetarian your probably not gonna get enough. So there i just proved health wise, why consuming meat is right.

You simply claimed that a vegetarian probably doesn't get enough protein, the implication of which is a protein deficient person. Please don't backtrack and claim you were saying something else the first time around.

I am fully aware that the right amount of protein for an individual depends on many different variables, including height and weight. Of course, if you look at my post giving FSA recommended daily protein intake of 55g you will see that I never claimed it was anything but an average.

As you even explained yourself, this is based on the calculation of 0.8g of protein for every kg of body weight. We are talking generally here, no doubt, I would not particularly recommend double the protein intake for a morbidly obese person just because they are the same height and sex but twice the weight of a slim person.

If, as you say you were also talking generally, your recommended 60 - 80 grams of protein daily would average out as 70 grams. This is a large difference with the average of 55 grams which I gave. You might also find it of note that one of the websites you linked to gives an average of 56 grams of protein p/day for an adult male and 46 grams for the average female.

My guess is that your personal ideas about how much protein it is healthy to consume are slightly outdated, national recommended figures have been coming steadily down now for many years, and I don't doubt that they will drop further before levelling out.

If you honestly believe that it is 'hard' to get enough protein on a diet that doesn't include meat then I would point out that it depends on your deinition of 'hard' when including something in your diet. To you, perhaps it would be hard to eat how others do without feeling like some sort of chore. Personally, I consume a variety of nuts, seeds, wholegrains, pulses and legumes, vegetables, fruit, leaves and many different soy products on a daily basis. I do this not in a concerted effort to obtain enough of anything in particular in my diet, but because I enjoy the flavours and textures they create in my food and it is a pleasure to eat them. Anyone who doesn't eat meat and does find it hard to obtain enough protein is either not eating enough calories in their diet or is obtaining their calories from food devoid of good levels of nutrition, most likely from highly processed or overly starchy foods. This would result in low levels of many essential nutrients and vitamins in addition to protein, whether you be omnivore, vegan or cannibal. My favourite foods are freshly prepared from fresh ingredients, it would be an effort for me to sit around eating cereal, biscuits, crisps and sandwiches all day, so I guess its a matter of preference.

Why write a fecking essay trying to get your point across? It's a simple topic which commands a simple response. If you're veggie or vegan or whatever, you have your own reasons for it but you shouldn't preach to anyone about it. If you eat meat, enjoy it, but likewise don't be telling veggie's they're wrong.

I love meat, I'll always eat it, and I don't feel guilty about it because there's no reason I should.

As logn as you'd feel the same way about butchering a human and eating their corpse then go right ahead.

Nonetheless, who cares?