Despite all the rhetoric and brainwashing we have been exposed to by governments and the media, courtesy of the meat and dairy industries, you don't have to eat meat to survive and be healthy. On the contrary, if you follow the most valid scientific research you'll find there is far more unhealthy about meat than you ever dreamed. Besides cholesterol, and fat there are some wonderful other ingredients that make up commercial meat today. Modern science has seen to it that animals are given a healthy dose of antibiotics before they reach us to minimize losses due to illness. By eating this meat, we ingest these antibiotics and by being dosed when we don't need them, they have less effect when we take them because we are ill.
Meat is a magnet for some of the most dangerous bacteria and parasites.
Fruits ferment into alcohol like wine. Vegetables likewise ferment or decay creating gases. Meat on the other hand putrifies which means it creates poisons that are toxic to humans. Fruit and most vegetables are easy to digest and don't stay in your digestive system as long as meat does. This gives it more time to putrify.