When equally delicious dishes possible with pure veg. food why meat(see links below)?

I guess for me I enjoy meat. Yes vegetarian and vegan dishes are satisfying and taste as good as meat dishes , but it is similar to comparing apples and oranges. Why is their a need for both ,now we could argue creation but that wasn't your question. Meat has textures and tastes that I haven't found in vegetables. Now it may be safer with all the diseases in animals to eat veggies but, wasn't their a recent tomato scare with salmonella? It probably all boils down to personal preference like I said I eat meat not because veggies taste bad or I don't like them I just like meat too. I also find that when cooking they compliment each other.