It's my understanding that some don't feel that much protein is needed. The idea w/veg/vegan and raw is that oxygen is more important. Raw food, esp juices, have the ability to deliver this to the body most effectively. This woman, Rozalind Gruben, explains it in the
last part of
this lecture.
Btw.. I'm a Cro Magnon.. I eat meat, dairy and sugar. I've lost over 100lbs due to Crohn's disease and lifestyle changes. Currently in a long research stage of different diets where I ran across this information.. that I found very interesting.