My claim is that despite much negative attention in the scientific literature animal nutrition is an important part of the human diet and has been unfairly demonized in the media and popular culture. I can start by illustrating the difference between the modern western diet, and more traditional ways of eating. I can talk about the major reasons meat and dairy has been demonized and is now avoided: cholesterol scare and the perception of its production as being bad for the environment. Then I can refute these two points and offer much evidence to the contrary, and qualify those arguments. I can then move into discussion of human development and how it has measurably deteriorated in some crucial ways (airway, dentition) in an epigenetic fashion from generation to generation as time has gone on, due to softer foods and lack of nutrition. I can bring in discussion of nutrients that can only be derived from animal nutrition which are essential to human health but virtually absent in the modern diet. I can also discuss eating for pleasure vs. eating for nutrition, and perhaps imply that there has been a shift toward the former.