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You are wrong.
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The micronutrients in plants are either completely lacking, of the wrong kind or amount, and/or are not bioavailable to humans.
There is no Vitamin A in plants. None. There is no Vitamin B12 in plants. None. There is no Vitamin F or K2 in plants. So, you cannot get all necessary vitamins in plants.
They are also the wrong type, in many cases. The iron in spinach is non-heme. Humans need heme iron, like that found in beef. You would have to eat 10 cups of spinach for you body to get the same amount of iron you would get from eating 3 ounces of beef.
The big lie of vegetarians, that they always omit from their statistics, is that humans do not utilize plant micronutrients very well at all. The same is true of macronutrients. We can absorb and utilize less than 5% of the protein in soy, but 95+% of the protein in eggs.
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Plants have anti-nutrients, that vegetarian promoters never mention. These anti-nutrients block the absorption of minerals.
For example, oysters have the most zinc of any food humans can eat. But if you eat oysters and black beans, the anti-nutrients in the beans will block 50% of the zinc from the oysters. And if you eat the oysters with corn, the anti-nutrients in the corn will block essentially all of the zinc. You are eating the same amount of oysters, but your body is not absorbing any of the zinc.
Vegetarianism, and especially veganism, is malnutrition.
It is better than a junk food diet, though, so many people feel better and their health can improve if they switch from a fake food diet to a vegetarian diet. But this improvement won't last, because a plant-based diet is unhealthy in the long run.
Raw is better than cooked. Agreed. But meat is better than plants.
P.S. Bacon is good for you. And the reason you miss it is because you miss the animal fat, which is extremely important to good health. In includes many vitamins and is necessary for sex hormones (vegans become infertile if they stay vegan long enough – this is why Kellogg promoted a vegan diet, because he was a religious zealot who discovered that a lack of animal fat would lead to zero sex drive).