Is becoming a vegetarian/vegan worth it?

[Azuren]

Meat has certain kinds of protein that are necessary for a healthy lifestyle.

Certain B vitamins are obtainable through only two means: Meat (or vitamins derived from it), and dirt. Pretty sure we're not here to talk about how awesome eating dirt is, and I would rather wash my fruits and vegetables.

Vegans are actively contributing to the extinction of Honey Bees, a species that would be gone were it not for turning them into livestock for honey. If everyone is vegan (like 99% of all vegans want to happen), honey farms go out of business and natural selection would see the Honey Bee go extinct (not to mention cows, pigs and chickens would probably be fine). All that aside, honey is actually really good for you, whereas agave is just as bad as a spoonful of sugar.

Being vegan is harder than most think, for example: Congratulations, if you're vegan then you can no longer have Big Red (soda), or nearly any food that is unnaturally red in color. Why? Because Red 40 food dye is made of beetles, yo.

Overall, humans shouldn't be vegan, but they shouldn't be as they are now, either. Primal man lived on a diet consisting of more than 90% nuts and berries, with 6~% fruits and veggies and the remainder being meat. On average, man would consume meat once every two or three weeks (and it would be all that was eaten that day). However, as man became more aware of how the land worked, they began eating more fruits and vegetables than before, and then finally our diets turned to mush. Or bread, whatever. After man settled and started farms to cultivate wheat, produce, and meat, our diets started to suck, but we at least still worked a lot of it off. It wasn't until the modern age that man's laziness outweighed the caloric intake...

IMPROMPTU HISTORY LESSON.