Plant-Based Diets are just as good if not better than Animal-Based Diets/diets with animal products

I’m lectured about credible sources from a person who cites not one but three Wikipedia articles for his arguments, the last one being the Wikipedia page about “Pineapple!” Laughable. Wikipedia is well known for its lack of credibility. I don’t accept your lectures & can’t possibly find your arguments based on Wikipedia to be credible.Since there are more nutrients in plants than animals, there is clearly no making up for the “limited nutrition of a PBD,” as you say. This does not make sense.Excess animal protein leads to bone decline and osteoporosis.The Journal of Nutrition, published by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences says: “Osteoporotic fracture rates increase as cultures become ‘Westernized.’”“Because increases in dietary animal protein are associated with increases in urinary calcium excretion, the increase in osteoporotic fractures has frequently been attributed to the increase in dietary animal protein.” http://jn.nutrition.org...The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine: Diets that are rich in animal protein cause people to excrete more calcium than normal through their kidneys and increase the risk of osteoporosis. Countries with lower-protein diets have lower rates of osteoporosis and hip fractures. http://www.pcrm.org...“The high calcium content of processed cheese products may be offset by the high sodium, polyphosphate, and protein contents of these products, which can be expected to increase calcium losses.” http://ajcn.nutrition.org...Harvard says: “...we cannot be confident that high milk or calcium intake is safe.” Also, “Currently, there’s no good evidence that consuming more than one serving of milk per day in addition to a reasonable diet (which typically provides about 300 milligrams of calcium per day from nondairy sources) will reduce fracture risk.” http://www.hsph.harvard.edu... “But, medical studies confirm that drinking cow’s milk does not lead to stronger bones and just relying on milk without sufficient vegetable intake can actually worsen bone health.” http://www.drfuhrman.com...“It is far less costly (time and money) and more efficient (dietary uptake issues)” to include animal-based food sources. This is highly inaccurate and an unbacked statement. U.S. News wrote in their “Best Plant Based Diets” article: “Among the qualities considered were each diet’s ability to deliver weight loss, provide good nutrition and safety, and be relatively easy to follow.” They detailed their favorite plant based diets → http://health.usnews.com...The American Institute for Cancer Research says: “Plant-based foods like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans should cover two thirds or more of the plate.” http://shrp.rutgers.edu...In my area’s grocery stores, not ONE of these foods is more expensive or harder to get and prepare than meat and dairy. Give me a break. Please stop repeating myths about vegetarian/veganism you’ve heard over and over -- they’re simply not true. LiveVest, a financing company, broke down the costs of different diets, concluding that a daily organic vegan diet is over $3 cheaper than a daily meat diet: http://www.learnvest.com...The potential cost of health care later in life raises huge questions as to whether an ABD could ever truly be cheaper for some people:“...when you consider that meat and dairy foods clog our bodies with saturated fat, growth hormones, and antibiotics, things that have been conclusively linked to cancer, heart disease, and obesity...it's certainly a lot less expensive -- and less painful -- to prevent debilitating diseases through our food choices than it is to treat them later,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com...The only reason why AFS are cheap enough for Americans to afford is due to government subsidies of crops used to feed industry livestock -- subsidies are NOT given to farmers who grow fruits and veggies. This is unfair to citizens. Americans pay tax dollars to finance their “cheaper” meat/dairy products -- produced in unethical and disease-rampant factory farms. http://articles.washingtonpost.com...http://perc.org...http://www.nytimes.com...No debate forfeiting here. Again, I repeat, a PBD is just as good if not better than an ABD -- clearly since not everyone will opt for a PBD, then people must inform themselves about their nutrition needs. It is just that simple. ABD, when consumed in small quantities, can be healthful, but that does not prove they are better than PBD sources. Stop putting words in my mouth.There is no B12 deficiency in a PBD or an ABD if one makes educated decisions about their diet. B12 is brought up repeatedly to refute the myth that vegetarians/vegans are unable to access MULTIPLE vital nutrients naturally from their diet, when this is clearly not the case. B12 is easy for anyone to get enough of, regardless of diet.Why wouldn’t I advocate local food harvesting? Your comments only prove that good, fresh, local produce is better than shipped fruits and veggies. Thanks for helping me out there.“He then starts round 2 by stating that referenced material from round 1 is wrong.” Yes, your referenced material from Round 1 was wrong, perhaps because you got it from Wikipedia. Sorry to break it to you. P.S. I’m female -- you couldn’t even get that right. Sad. (It’s in my profile, guess you didn’t check sources to make sure.)And for research showing mortality-disease-diet connections? There’s plenty. “A recent large cohort study6 with 10 years of follow-up found that a higher intake of total red meat and total processed meat was associated with an increased risk of mortality.” http://archinte.jamanetwork.com...“The results of our analyses suggest that men and women with a high consumption of processed meat are at increased risk of early death, in particular due to cardiovascular diseases but also to cancer. In this population, reduction of processed meat consumption to less than 20 g/day would prevent more than 3% of all deaths.” http://www.biomedcentral.com...University of Oxford, after testing 45,000 people in what was the “largest study ever conducted in the UK comparing rates of heart disease between vegetarians and non-vegetarians,” says: “The risk of hospitalisation or death from heart disease is 32% lower in vegetarians than people who eat meat and fish.” http://www.ox.ac.uk...“Vegetarian diets are associated with reduced death rates in a study of more than 70,000 Seventh-day Adventists with more favorable results for men than women, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.” http://www.eurekalert.org...When researching if diet affects risk for metabolic syndrome (risk for Type 2 Diabetes), doctors and researchers concluded: “After adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity, and dietary energy intake, the results showed that triglycerides, glucose, blood pressure levels, waist circumference, and BMI were significantly lower (P < 0.05) in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians. Semi-vegetarians had significantly lower waist circumference and BMI (P < 0.001) than nonvegetarians. Additional adjustment of these variables for BMI showed that the results remained significantly lower in vegetarians for glucose and diastolic blood pressure (P < 0.05).” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...