The gut isn't meant to be stretched and scraped by bulky food that doesn't digest so fully as does the animal fat and protein we consume. These glutinous and fibrous foods from plant matter just stress the body, injure it. Having a surgery on the gut? The doctor will tell you to rest the digestive system by NOT consuming fiber -- yet somehow fiber is at the same time heralded as good for the digestive system. Why not just keep the system non-stressed all the time? Some will argue that this stress from plant foods -- and not just direct physical stress in the sense of damage to tissue from abrasion that must then be repaired, but also chemical stress from the various disagreeable plant compounds -- is stress that's good for you. Wha...?