Comments on: Vitamin B12 to the Rescue! https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lisa Scharin https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-23243 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:04:22 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-23243 I’ve read that fermented foods have are a good source of B12-like Kimchi, tempeh, yogurts, tofu, along with mushrooms and other fungi type plants. This was not mentioned-but I believe these are good for B12-however-I do take vitamins with B12 so I know I’m getting what I need.

]]> By: Amy Johnson https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-23162 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 02:56:42 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-23162 Another way of looking at B12 is that it’s grown off bacteria for us to eat making it a reliable, safe source. We are just farming it from bacteria, like humans farm animals and plants. It’s not fake, synthetic, inferior. We are smart enough now to be vegans, humans have been vegetarian for centuries but now we can be vegan because we are smart enough to farm bacteria for reliable,safe cruelty free sources of B12. The whole natural argument is logically a fallacy but many people are still hung up on it. I think with careful wording you can make people feel much more comfortable with the concept of B12. Using words like synthetic, supplement, only comes from animals imply the an omnivore diet is healthier, needed and a vegan diet is fake and inferior. This isn’t true as vegetarianism has been fine for centuries, B12 does exist in soil and poo, humans can’t eat them without significantly increasing chances of getting sick so we are now smart enough to farm bacteria for reliable, safe, cruelty free B12 thus making veganism perfectly healthy in our day and age. Anyway my advice is to have a section somewhere in vegan outreach on the concept of natural and logical fallacy etc etc and also discussion of words used etc in order to educate people and make people feel more comfortable. I have met too many people that hang onto ignorance of the natural fallacy and wording such as synthetic, supplement in order to justify their money support and consumption of animals and their products.

]]> By: Jack Norris https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-23134 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:07:25 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-23134 In reply to Gail Lengel.

Gail,

Here is a short page on how various herbivorous animals get vitamin B12:
http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/animal

]]> By: Gail Lengel https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-23127 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:09:47 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-23127 In reply to Jack Norris.

But isn’t that where animals get their B12?

]]> By: Jack Norris https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-23077 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 04:42:10 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-23077 In reply to Gail Lengel.

Gail,

I understand your view, but I’ve seen little evidence proving that the B12 in the soil is the form of B12 that is active for humans. Here’s more information on that: http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/plant#orgpro

]]> By: apollo taito https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-22932 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:17:08 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-22932 thanks mate this is great !!!

]]> By: Gail Lengel https://staging.veganoutreach.org/vitamin-b12-rescue/#comment-22827 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:42:39 +0000 http://staging.veganoutreach.org/?p=18786#comment-22827 I find this article a little misleading since soil bacterias synthesize B12. http://news.mit.edu/2007/b12 Meat is not the only source of B12.

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