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All Known Essential Minerals
Minerals (nutrients) are inorganic substances (contain no carbon) that are necessary for normal body function and development.

Macrominerals

Macro-minerals are needed in large doses (approximate recommended daily intake, milligrams (mg) per day ):
1. potassium, K (3500 mg) - metal, ions are necessary for the function of all living cells;
2. chloride, Cl− (3400 mg) - essential electrolyte in all body fluids;
3. sodium, Na, natrium (2400 mg) - metal, essential for all animals and some plants;
4. calcium, Ca (1000 mg) - metal, essential for living organisms, produced in supernova nucleosynthesis;
5. phosphorus, P (1000 mg) - in the form of the phosphate is required for all known forms of life;
6. choline (425 - 550 mg) - essential vitamin-like (vitamin B4) nutrient, synthesized in human body, but not sufficiently;
7. magnesium, Mg (350 mg) - metal, essential for all known living organisms;
Trace Minerals

Trace minerals are needed in very small amounts (recommended daily intake, milligrams (mg) or micrograms (mcg) per day:
1. iron, Fe (15 mg) - metal, found in nearly all living organisms;
2. zinc, Zn (8 - 11 mg) - metal, essential for humans and other organisms;
3. manganese, Mn (5 mg) - metal, toxic essential trace element;
4. fluorine, F, fluoride ion, F− (3 - 4 mg) - a beneficial poisonous element, essential for bone solidity;
5. copper, Cu (2 mg) - metal, essential to all living organisms;
6. iodine, I (150 mcg) - a key component of thyroid hormones;
7. selenium, Se (35mcg) - toxic in large doses, essential micronutrient for animals;
8. chromium, Cr (30 mcg) - chromium (III) is questionably essential for humans.

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Benjamin Franklin

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Significant Ecological Impacts of Livestock Production

There is no clear evidence that livestock grazing can significantly enhance soil carbon stores. And there is significant research that demonstrates greater carbon storage with no grazing. Livestock grazing appears to be a questionable strategy for reducing global atmospheric carbon. Climatic conditions year to year, for instance, can shift carbon storage in grazed areas from a positive to a negative. Furthermore, any storage is gradual and takes years to accumulate, while carbon uptake by soils is finite and slows over time. And compared to almost all other ecosystems, arid rangelands are among the least productive ecosystems—hence have little potential for soil carbon storage compared to other ecosystems like forests.
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One cannot look at the soil carbon storage issue out of context. Livestock are among the greatest source of GHG emissions now—and reducing livestock numbers is the quickest and perhaps the most effective means of significantly altering GHG emissions. Furthermore, there are a host of collateral damages created by livestock production, from the destruction of soil biocrusts, killing of predators, water pollution, clearing of forests for pasture, and so on.

Phenylalanine

Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid.

Provided by diet, phenylalanine can be converted into another amino acid, tyrosine, in the body. Tyrosine is used to synthesize two key neurotransmitters that promote alertness: dopamine and norepinephrine.

It has 3 forms:

D-phenylalanine;
L-phenylalanine - most common, the form in which phenylalanine is incorporated into the body’s proteins;
DL-phenylalanine.

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