https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/14/farm-ani...
> Meat, and animal products (milk, eggs...) are a much better protein source than any plant-based alternative.
I'm curious, in what way, what's your metric? This article suggests they're mostly equivalent so why chose the one involving animals at all?
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/animal-vs-plant-protein...
- It's elementary. For a protein to be usable by the body, it needs to be complete : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein and in the right amounts.
Vegetables don't contain complete proteins generally, so you have to eat a diversified, complex array of food to equate animal products. Animal products are complete, and their profile is very close to what the body needs.
Another problem is that “high protein” vegetables usually come with plenty of carbs, or fat in the case of nuts. If you have a high-protein diet because you're a young, active male, you'll end up increasing your caloric intake too much. For instance, in the case of Quinoa, you get 39g of carbs for 8g of lower-quality proteins.