Natural Vitamin B12: The Nail in the Malnourished Vegan Coffin

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Today’s video:

Vitamin B12, the Achilles’ heel of veganism or just another example of the animal farming industries clutching at straws?

In their 2022 We Eat Balanced campaign, the AHDB advocate for the consumption of animal products by stating that it’s a natural source of vitamin B12.

However, when we consider that the majority of the animals we consume are either supplemented with B12 in the first place, or the minerals required for them to produce B12, it becomes apparent that this isn’t even true.

But more to the point, does it even matter if we get vitamin B12 naturally or unnaturally? The idea that something being natural means that it is better is clearly a misguided idea. There are many things that are natural but clearly terrible, such as certain diseases like anthrax, and there are many things that are unnatural but clearly good, such as medications like synthetic antibiotics.

In fact, the way that we live is completely unnatural, from the homes we live in and the clothes we wear, to even the food we eat.

Animal agriculture as an industry is unnatural due to it being a human construct that revolves around domestication, selective breeding, artificial insemination, and the list goes on. Even the bananas we eat are a product of selective breeding and are therefore unnatural – interestingly without being selectively bred bananas would naturally have been almost inedible.

So what is natural is not what is relevant, and in the case of B12 we can get what we need through eating fortified plant foods and taking a supplement. So we have the choice to either get B12 that way, or through supporting an industry that is not only one of the key drivers of the climate crisis, but also causes unimaginable suffering and cruelty to animals.

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