>I'll say one reference is that book
>I mentioned, author Udo ERasmus or something like that, discusses EFAs, and
>a mainly vegetables and fruit diet just doesn't have the variety and
>quantity of EFAs that people need to be at optimum health.

I have read that book and can only say that nothing in it convinced me
as you were convinced.
Are wild primates at optimum health? There are many that eat no
meat/dairy.

>Meat is a somewhat ambiguous word in
>this context, so I'll say yes, I absolutely think kids must have some foods
>from flesh sources, including poultry, dairy, eggs, meat, game, or fish to
>avoid stunted growth and risks stemming from malnutrition.

why?  "protein"?  efas?