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Originally Posted by kayleigh.
Why are vegetables essential? both can be cut from the diet without dramatic effects.
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Yes, neither meat nor vegetables are essential in the human diet, which is the reason I asked Laurent Quinn Proper why s/he stated that "meat is essential."
I looked up all-meat diets to learn a little more about them. The traditional Inuit diet appears to be composed entirely of fish and other raw flesh (with a little "fireweed," a plant, occasionally): "Vitamins and minerals which are typically derived from plant sources are nonetheless present in most Inuit diets. Vitamins A and D are present in the oils and livers of cold-water fishes and mammals. Vitamin C is obtained through sources such as caribou liver, kelp, whale skin, and seal brain; because these foods are typically eaten raw or frozen, the vitamin C they contain, which would be destroyed by cooking, is instead preserved.[6]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_diet