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Request for Robzvegan, one of my followers on FB.
To help the "vegans thrive on pills" myth out of the world, since some people actually believe that we swallow supplemental pills for protein, calcium, iron etc.

Vegetables and fruits contain everything your body needs; protein, calcium, iron etc. Many vegan foods are fortified with B12 and vitamin D, though you can get D from the sun as well, and no one in Western cultures consumes B12 in a natural way like we used to (drinking from rivers, consuming veggies with dirt etc.) Even cattle raised for meat receive supplemental B12 (processed into their feed). It simply makes no sense to filter everything your body needs through an animal before taking it yourself. It's like flushing clean drinking water through the sewers before you drink it; there will be many harmful things in the water as a result, which also counts for filtering your vitamins through an animal. Cholesterol, saturated fat, lactose, mercury and many other things which drastically raise your chance of being struck with heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, (breast-) and other types of cancer and more nasty diseases. If you're interested in the details, consider watching documentary Forks Over Knives (www.forksoverknives.com/ ), which goes into detail about how/why. I think they're on Netflix, though I've seen them on Youtube too somewhere (don't remember). What I like best about this documentary is that they don't just randomly claim stuff, but also show HOW they came to this conclusion in detail. It's also based on peer-reviewed studies.

Eating meat for nutrients is like scalping a person's head because you like their hair colour rather than finding out what dye they use. It's inefficient, environmentally destructive and extremely unhealthy too. Most cancer and heart disease these days can be prevented. It's so sad that most people choose not to.

Aside from that, I don't mean to be mrs. obvious here, but where do you think vitamin supplements are made of? Meat? Animal skulls? No, they're made of plants because plants contain all essential amino acids and therefore all supplements are availible in plant-based version.

And yes, there are plenty of vegans born with allergies, like allergy to nuts, seeds, wheat, soy, certain types of fruit etc. But they are still vegan because there are are over 350,000 plant species in the world, from which about 80,000 are edible for humans.

Visit my website: veganartbook.com
My webshop: www.pupaveg.com

Feel free to ask me questions!

Description
Request for Robzvegan, one of my followers on FB.
To help the "vegans thrive on pills" myth out of the world, since some people actually believe that we swallow supplemental pills for protein, calcium, iron etc.

Vegetables and fruits contain everything your body needs; protein, calcium, iron etc. Many vegan foods are fortified with B12 and vitamin D, though you can get D from the sun as well, and no one in Western cultures consumes B12 in a natural way like we used to (drinking from rivers, consuming veggies with dirt etc.) Even cattle raised for meat receive supplemental B12 (processed into their feed). It simply makes no sense to filter everything your body needs through an animal before taking it yourself. It's like flushing clean drinking water through the sewers before you drink it; there will be many harmful things in the water as a result, which also counts for filtering your vitamins through an animal. Cholesterol, saturated fat, lactose, mercury and many other things which drastically raise your chance of being struck with heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, (breast-) and other types of cancer and more nasty diseases. If you're interested in the details, consider watching documentary Forks Over Knives (www.forksoverknives.com/ ), which goes into detail about how/why. I think they're on Netflix, though I've seen them on Youtube too somewhere (don't remember). What I like best about this documentary is that they don't just randomly claim stuff, but also show HOW they came to this conclusion in detail. It's also based on peer-reviewed studies.

Eating meat for nutrients is like scalping a person's head because you like their hair colour rather than finding out what dye they use. It's inefficient, environmentally destructive and extremely unhealthy too. Most cancer and heart disease these days can be prevented. It's so sad that most people choose not to.

Aside from that, I don't mean to be mrs. obvious here, but where do you think vitamin supplements are made of? Meat? Animal skulls? No, they're made of plants because plants contain all essential amino acids and therefore all supplements are availible in plant-based version.

And yes, there are plenty of vegans born with allergies, like allergy to nuts, seeds, wheat, soy, certain types of fruit etc. But they are still vegan because there are are over 350,000 plant species in the world, from which about 80,000 are edible for humans.

Visit my website: veganartbook.com
My webshop: www.pupaveg.com

Feel free to ask me questions!