Originally Posted by Happy Feet

I've been vegetarian (eat eggs and cheese) for 20 years now and participate in a number of outdoor endurance activities. There is no "need" for meat to create performance.All of the major fast, strong animals are vegetarian. Oxen, horses, bison, elephants, caribou, mules bulls... There are a few carnivores in that category but they generally suffer from limited endurance and require long down times to digest. The life of a predatory carnivore is usually boom/bust and balanced on the edge of starvation. One on one, there is a vegetarian prey animal that can defeat a carnivore predator in every biosphere except perhaps the polar bear in the Arctic.Interesting when you think of it in comparison to the false narratives we propagate regarding strong meat eaters and weak vegetarians.