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B12 is fun. Livestock is supplemented with B12. Meat-based diets need their meat to be actively supplemented with B vitamin sources. If you're a carnist but l
by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
B12 is fun. Livestock is supplemented with B12.
Meat-based diets need their meat to be actively supplemented with B vitamin sources.
If you're a carnist but live on nutrient-poor junk food, I could see nutritional deficiencies entering the mix. I think it's relatively uncontroversial that malnutrition has mental health side effects.
- rank0 5y agoAnimals not in factory farms don’t need this supplementation.
- chmod600 5y agoI see that your comment is downvoted a shade, but I'd like to know whether it is true or false. Do you (or anyone else) have a citation?
- rank0 5y agoYou could do a quick search but I think common sense should suffice here. How did all the (meat eating) humans survive before b12 supplements were around? Animals surely do not receive supplements in the wild. In the factories is where they are deprived of their natural diet that would provide the b12.
- chmod600 5y agoI agree, but sometimes I hear other theories. One of the other comments said something about unsanitized water providing b12. In the past I've heard that just eating dirty fruit and vegetables had enough b12.
- rank0 5y agoI suppose those theories are possible and I should do some research. The "normal" way to receive B12 was from livestock eating grass/vegetation that were covered in dirt. In that case, humans would indeed meet their B12 requirements from eating those livestock.