Indeed, one man's meat is another man's poison........for me it is gluten. My health has improved immeasurably since ditching the stuff, despite frequent doctors and medical experts claiming that the gluten thing is just another fad. My intake of veg is double what it used to be and I can accept that that may play a role in my youthful vigour but then so has S&S. My DNA structure is such that my bacon receptor gene is permanently on. And it is staying on along with the gene for 'if you eat meat, eat it with a plate of veg. As long as you eat vegetables as a vegetarian then what is the problem? I know and have known vegetarians who don't like vegetables, as odd as it sounds, choosing bread, pasta, cereal, chocolate and diet coke as their staples. If you are a veg athlete and optimum nutrition is your aim when considering moral or ethical choices you make, then that isn't going to be you I'm sure. as others have said, food choices trump all else - minimal processing sans guff. A tin of beans here in the UK, you know,haricot beans in a sugar bomb tomato sauce, is labelled as "one of your 5 a day" - that's from a government guideline target of getting punters to eat a minimal of 5 portions of fresh fruit and veg a day. A tin is a vegetable? How can that be? It is a contentious issue in my house as my daughter won't go into a room with a vegetable in it, let alone have one on her plate. A super intelligent kid, just left school with the highest grades possible in maths, English, physics, biology and chemistry and is going to university to study bio-medical engineering, yet will happily have a tin of beans on the basis that it is one of her portions of fresh vegetables! It says so on the tin.........drives me nuts.