Originally Posted by
wolfchild
The point is, that the only way to get vitamin B12 is from animal products... For people who are vegetarian , vitamin B12 deficiency can take many years to develop, but it still happens. It's impossible for humans to live in this world without eating another "life" and yes bacteria is" life" plants are also " living things" and are trying to survive, protect themselves and reproduce just like any other living thing. Vegeterians are no more ethical then meat eaters.
I have nothing against vegeterians, I just believe that vegetarian lifestyle would be impossible without modern supplements and food production technology..and even with supplements many vegeterians still end up with nutritional defeciencies.
As for omega 3's, it's the same thing. Meat and fish are the best sources...There are few plants which have small amounts of omega 3's but all those omega 3's in plants are different and can not be utilized by human body like the ones from fish and meat.
"Vegeterians are no more ethical then meat eaters."
... that would be a hard claim to defend. Animals, like us, have nervous systems and brains that signal pain and suffering while we are mistreating them and killing them. Also, it requires vast amounts of plant food to raise an animal -- only to then turn around and kill it. That plant food and the land used to grow it could have been better used to raise food for humans. Also, animal raising contributes more to global warming that even cars...
"the only way to get vitamin B12 is from animal products"
Not true. The B12 that I take is produced by the same kind of bacteria that yours is...
"As for omega 3's, it's the same thing. Meat and fish are the best sources"
That' highly debatable as well. The omega-3's are not produced by those fish. They are produced by the plants that those fish eat. Why use a middle-man? Why go through all the trouble of hunting and killing fish -- as well as adding toxins like mercury into the mix. Why not just go right to the same source -- the pure source -- where the fish got them from: plants?