Interesting way to think about this:
People obsess over eating diverse vegetables for complete nutrition. Spinach for this. Kale for that. Carrots for something else. You need seven different plants to get a complete nutrient profile.
Meanwhile a cow spends months roaming pasture eating fifty different plant species. Grasses, herbs, wildflowers, clovers, each with different mineral profiles from different soil patches.
The cow's rumen ferments all of this. Extracts the nutrients. Synthesises vitamins. Concentrates minerals. Stores it all in muscle tissue and organs.
Then you eat 400 grams of beef and get the nutritional diversity of forty different plants, pre-processed, bio-available, packaged with complete protein and zero antinutrients.
This is vastly superior to eating seven vegetables from the supermarket. Those vegetables are all cultivated from the same industrial soil, grown with synthetic fertilisers, picked before ripening, stored for weeks.
The cow is a walking, breathing nutritional concentrator. It did the work of finding diverse plant sources and extracting maximum nutrition from them.
You're not missing out on plant diversity by eating beef. You're accessing MORE plant diversity than any human could forage, pre-digested by a ruminant that evolved to handle it.
This is why traditional cultures prized animals that roamed. Free-range, pasture-fed cattle eating diverse forage produce more nutritious meat than grain-finished cattle eating monoculture corn.
The nutrition isn't in the plants. It's in the animal that processed the plants for you.
When someone tells you to eat more vegetables for diverse nutrition, they're asking you to do a worse job than a cow already did.
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