Rodger in Sheffield, I'm suprised that with all the protein pontification going on, no one gave you the answer to your question about "The Jungle," which was written by Upton Sinclair in about 1920, if my memory serves me well. It was considered one of the first "Muckraking" novels, along the lines of Jessica Midford, some thirty years later. It was responsible for the formation of the USDA meat inspection and grading standards, and some of the safety requirements for meat industry workers.

Personally I will eat almost anything that had a face or a mother. I absolutely love vegetarians, since they keep the price of meat down, are cheap dates, spend more time worrying about what's in meat than I do (thereby keeping the meat companies on their toes) and are the only people who will shut-up when they put a rare tender piece of the cow that died for my sins, on the plate in front of me. Now that's communion.

And by the way, I've honestly never known a vegetarian that truely LOOKED healthy...