This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

Studies have shown that up to 40 per cent of people in Western countries have low or marginal B12 status, meaning that inadequate B12 intake is far from only being a vegan problem.32 Moreover, similar to how farmed fish are supplemented with algae oil for long-chain omega-3 fats, factory-farmed animals are given fortified feed and supplemented with B1233 because they’re not getting B12 in the natural way either. Even grass-fed animals are often supplemented with B12 or cobalt – which is necessary for ruminant animals to produce B12 in their digestive system – because lots of soil is now cobalt-deficient. In essence, the majority of B12 in our diet is coming from a supplement one way or another. So we are faced with the choice of contributing to animal suffering, environmental degradation, an increased risk of infectious disease and antibiotic resistance to get B12, or we can take a supplement, which is more often than not the way the animals we consume get B12 in the first place.