Originally Posted by ossipago

I know I shouldn't be doing this, but ... you totally ignored the point that just because meat eating is the status quo doesn't make it inherently more defensible than being vegetarian/vegan. You can't simply say that because the studies showing vegetarian diets are healthier have problems, that means that meat-eating is healthier. That is the same "logic" used by creationists when they say that the lack of transition fossils in the record (a problem in evolutionary theory) means in and of itself that creationism is correct. You fail to advance your end of the argument.

I'll also note that your positive evidence for your position is anecdotal, uncorrected aggregrate statistics. The other side has at least one controlled, longitudinal, peer-reviewed study. Yes, it has some problems - all studies do - but it's clear which one of these is scientifically more convincing.