HOW DID THE ISSUE THAT VEGETABLE PROTEIN IS INFERIOR TO ANIMAL PROTEIN BEGIN IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Two scientists, T.B. Osborne and L.B. Mendel, disclosed their discovery in an American published newspaper in 1914 that the basic cause for the issue that plant protein is inferior in quality to animal protein came from experiments on laboratory animals, especially rats. When rats were fed with certain vegetable proteins (unless they were supplemented with certain amino acids) they did not grow as fast as on animal proteins. Whether you believe it or not, almost all studies of protein value have been performed with rats; but evidently protein needs of humans are intrinsically different from those of rats. Human milk with 6% of its calories as protein can alone support the health and growth of human babies but cannot support the growth of baby rats. Should we therefore take this as the basis of the argument: “If human milk is incapable of supporting baby rats, it is also incapable of supporting human babies? Yet, reliance upon the differences between animal and plant protein procured fr
