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Originally Posted by Voice  I was surprised at that too, but I see you're misinforming people on that score... There is a natural vegan source of vitamin B12. Go to your organic garden and pull out a carrot, rinse it off, and eat it. You just got B12. It's in the soil, bits of which are trapped in the grooves of the carrot. You don't need a lot of B12, and in a natural environment that's how vegans would get it. |
Actually, it's the bacteria in the soil that is the source, but that's just splitting hairs. And the bacteria got there from the animal manure.
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Originally Posted by Voice You disagreed with my "threatened" comment, yet that is exactly why you find it hard socially - they make it hard because they feel threatened by it. |
That just isn't true. It's a convenience thing. If we ordered a pizza, I wouldn't insist on not getting onions, even though I don't like them, because I know that my friends like onions. Do they feel threatened by my non-onion eating? I doubt it, I think they just want to be able to eat what they want without having to accommodate the odd one out.
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Originally Posted by Voice It sounds like conformity is high on your list. |
Please don't be condescending. There's a difference between being a sheep and being polite. It's polite to wear clothes, so I do, even though I'd prefer not to most of the time. Does that make me a conformist?
I guess I just feel that if vegetarianism really is all it's cracked up to be, why didn't I notice a change during my year of not eating meat? I think that everyone's body is different, and if eating vegan makes you feel better, then I see nothing wrong with that. It's when vegans look down on meat-eaters that they feel "threatened". I know that I take offense when someone tries to tell me that their way of life is superior to mine, and I imagine everyone else feels the same way.
Oh, and that blurb on B vitamins isn't talking about B12 specifically. There are many B vitamins.