In this episode Dee discusses how much protein is needed to be healthy. He takes his information from “The Ethics of What We Eat” by Peter Singer and Jim Mason. He trusts the source for a number of reasons: 1. The book is carefully researched 2. Peter Singer, one of the authours of the book, is an internationally renown philosopher from Princeton University and is subject to a high level of scrutiny and accountability. 3. A clear effort toward to be objective and accurate. Excerpt from the book page 227: :The first question most people ask vegans and vegetarians is, “Where do you get your protein?” The prevalence of that question is a hangover from an earlier period, starting in the 1930s, when nutritionists believed we needed a high level of protein in our diet, and that a protein-deficient diet was a major cause of malnutrition. A lack of protein was a problem among somepeople eating little else but the tropical root crop cassava- eaten in the West mainly in the form of tapioca- which contains less protein than any other major staple food. But other malnourished people thought to be suffering from protein deficiency were in fact not getting enough calories. The idea that we need high levels of protein was disproven in the 1970s, and health authorities reduced recommended protein intakes to about a third of waht had been thought to be required. These lower levels mean that for adults eating sufficeint calories, even a diet consisiting EXCLUSIVELY of bread, pasta, rice …