Why do people think vegetarians eat NO protein?
The animal exploitation industries have misled people into believing that they need meat to get protein and dairy to get calcium. What you learn quickly after becoming vegetarian–if you do a little research is that you don’t need that much protein and too much of it, especially animal protein, causes you to lose calcium. You see, they have a fat advertising budget, as do junk food purveyors, and healthy foods have almost no advertising budget, so you get these horrible messages about eating meat and dairy and eggs. I mean, you’ve never heard of kwashiorkor, have you? That’s an illness caused by insufficient protein. So unless you aren’t eating enough calories (1,800 to 2,000 a day) or you’re eating lots of junk food, you’re getting enough protein.
