Your hearsay is worse than mine... you can't just state that the problem with meat is what they inject into it... if I eat a bunch of banana's every day for twenty years, I doubt they'll be any inpacted banana built up in my colon, and I'll say that a bunch a day is excessive enough to make an impact!

My comment about the food pyramid really only relates to the United States, but the comment about people in the world is this... meat to most other cultures is purely as a "condiment", to which I say, why bother, then? The main thing to understand is that if we are the evolved species we claim to be, then our lack of compasion towards the animals we consume shouldn't be tolerated... voraciously consuming flesh is quite inhuman.