I see you have failed to acknowledge the fact that monkeys ate your quotes regarding meat consumption. Their meat consumption being quite well documented and common.

I also see you have regurgitated more failed quotes, like the nonsense that you can get all the B12 you need from rainwater. PLEASE, we are not that naive. The fact remains that if you are vegan, you will become B12 deficient without artificial supplements. Vegetarians don't have this problem if they are eating eggs and dairy, but vegans do.

Unlike animals, most, if not all, plants have no B12 requirement for any function, and therefore have no active mechanisms to produce or store B12. Many seaweeds have been shown to have B12 analogues. (Note: Most seaweeds are algae, which are technically not plants.) It is not clear whether the algae make the B12 analogues or whether they absorb the B12 analogues from their environment. Relying on a food that contains inactive B12 analogues can make a B12 deficiency even worse.

Btw, "the garden of eden" is a fairy tale. Please don't replace reality with fiction.

You mention of The Ladrone Islands, discovered by the Spaniards around 1620: Like I trust their observations to be correct? These are the same people who painted darker skinned people as white and notoriously misunderstood and abused everyone they came in contact with. Even if these natives didn't eat birds, I bet they ate eggs, insects or fish.

"The ethical, environmental, and even nutritional arguments are compelling enough to encourage millions of Americans to reduce, if not eliminate entirely, their consumption of animal products."

Bullshit. Modern mass agriculture is ruining our soil and in turn the run off is destroying our lakes, rivers and oceans. What's ethical about that? If you want to give good advice to people simply tell them to shop the perimeter of the supermarket, shop organic and stay out of the isles. Man-made food is the threat, not meat. Free range natural fed meats, eggs, wild caught fish, veggies, fruits, nuts...this is a balanced diet. This is what people have evolved to eat. It is 100% "ethical" to eat this diet. Anything less is malnutrition backed by misinformation and a false sense of morality.

Try explaining morals, mercy and compassion to the rest of the omnivores on the planet and let us know what they say. Survival is not pretty and neither is your logic.

Wow, you're amazingly good at parroting other people's failed analogies. I've got one that basically renders all of yours null and void:

MONKEYS: Omnivores for hundreds of thousands of years.

HUMANS: Omnivores for hundreds of thousands of years.

Genetics are a bitch, huh?

Advocating that we deny our natural diet because you don't like hunting is pretty absurd. You DO live in a world where the rule of the jungle is in effect. Look at our governments, abusive police, wars, racism, greed. You're in the jungle and trying to deny it. Don't forget that just because you wear clothing doesn't mean you aren't a monkey.

Btw, love durians. I'm growing 4 of them in my living room.

"I truly and honestly cannot understand how decent people can continue to eat meat."

It's simple. You don't HAVE to eat mass produced meat. You can eat live caught animals that weren't tortured, abused and made to live in a box full of shit. Meat eaters are not indecent people, they are people who listen to their body's needs and don't deny them.

Well, next time you eat a ripe durian, clean off the seeds and put them (nub down) in a clear glass of moist dirt so you can track the sprouting. Place them in 25% light and a month later you should have roots developing. Mine are about 2.5 ft. tall now and plenty of leaves branching out. I have no idea if they will survive, but it's an experiment. That same method has also worked for the goji berry bushes, golden berry bushes, macadamia nut tree, 2 redwood trees and avocado trees growing in the living room.

I agree that hunting is more humane than those horrible conditions that most animals live in near slaughter houses. I think a real hunter has a sense of humility, not arrogance in respecting nature. I only eat wild caught meat with the exception of free range, natural fed chicken. Even so, I'd say my diet is mostly veggies, fruits, nuts, berries...and a wide variety of fats from coconut, durian, flax seeds, avocados. No dairy, no grains except quinoa once in a blue moon.

"you do indeed usually get enough from insect parts etc. to keep you going"

Let's squash this bug, once and for all. If that was true, then tell us why so many vegans who stick to a strict vegan diet become B12 deficient? Btw, the RDA is bullshit too. Everyone has unique dietary needs. You are on the money about calories though.

I'd say "Let me count the reasons" for you, but you don't have any. Why? Because you're living in a alternate reality where Fox "News" propaganda is the truth, no matter how outrageous the lie is. It warms my heart to know that your vote of stupidity does not matter. So go ahead and memorize your hate filled talking points from Rush Limbaugh, your vitriol from every right wing website you read. Go ahead and be a troll on websites like Salon. Forward those ridiculous, debunked, anti-Obama chain emails to your dim-witted, gullible friends and family.

It won't matter.

The votes that are really going to matter are the undecided voters, who are smarter than you and are all starting to lean towards Obama. Of course you'll get more and more desperate as the election comes closer, but the morons you appeal to are not swing voters: The type of person you appeal to are already as dumb and misinformed as you are. Thankfully, you are all becoming a minority in the political process of America.