[samatman]

You don't get to make decisions for me on the basis of what is necessary from your perspective.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

What is meat necessary for, other than proteins and iron? Taste? Tradition?

Also, what decisions are you talking about? OP said one does not need meat. Isn't that a provable fact?

[Diederich]

My wife needs to eat red meat, otherwise she has very low iron levels.

Note: she does not like red meat, and we spent years and years trying to get her iron levels up without it. She started to have to get iron infusions, which are no fun at all.

All that stopped when she started eating red meat twice a week.

Yes, this is a very rare case, and I can imagine a future where red meat is provided as something like medicine for those few who really need it.

But some people do effectively need red meat.

[mauflows]

Fair point! Thanks for the perspective