It is like when you mention you are a vegan, suddenly everyone is a nutritionist and asks where your proteins are coming from.
The proteins come from plants. Where do the cow's proteins come from? Hunting?
Even if meat (in moderation) might have been ideal for us 30 years ago, with current levels of antibiotics and other crap fed to animals you should be staying away from dairy, eggs and meat altogether. People eat too much dairy, too much meat and eggs and whatever they call vegetables is mostly storage ripened crap carefully ruined by cooking.
Vegan for 4+ years, vegetarian for 20+. My weight while on meat: 100kg, my weight without meat but a lot of diary: 90kg. Currently : 75kg ... ideal blood pressure, no sign of heart disease. On 0 medication at 41 years (for the last 23 years, since I stopped eating meat).....
Now on the GMOs : there is a trend among people who care about their diet a bit more (organic food, high % raw) to not buy food from the US. At lest not corn or soy products. Many even avoid organic because of fear of cross pollination. Then there is a problem : everything has soy and corn in it. Even coke and candy (corn syrup, soy lecithin), so from Snickers to M&M a lot of surprising things will have to be labelled as GMO. MANY companies will not like that, so they can either make a non-GMO version, start losing customers, or completely buy organic.
I know people who started a seed bank. And not the crazy kind you see on "end of the world preparing" shows, completely normal educated, thinking people who see, that soon you will have to grow your own if you don't want GMO. They are talking about fine-filtered air green houses....
Anyway ... all I wanted to say: vegetable based diet will keep you healthy, give you proteins and everything, but you have to be careful to get all your nutrients, possibly take some supplements (B12 is the most common recommendation)......
Isn't the problem simply, that people are so addicted to good tasting deep-fried-sugar-grease-carb dishes that they rather die a horrible death than change their diet?