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[Anonymous No.5737123]

Can vegans get B12 without supplements?

>pic unrelated, I just like pistachios

[Anonymous No.5737131]

>>5737123
they're all jacked up

all the time

[Anonymous No.5737150]

Yeast, brah.

[Anonymous No.5737152]

>>5737150
but its alive

[Anonymous No.5737153]

>>5737152
Yeast is a fungus. I've never heard of anyone having a moral problem with eating mushrooms.

[Anonymous No.5737155]

>>5737123
yeah, drink water out of a stream, eat your feces, live in a dirt hut.

...or just take a pill

[Anonymous No.5737156]

>>5737153
convenient

[Anonymous No.5737183]

>>5737123
poop and dirt have b12

[Anonymous No.5737188]

>>5737123
to make it more bearable OP, batter your poopoo real nice and throw it in the fryer

[Anonymous No.5737230]

The short answer is no (unless you don't count fortified foods as supplements, since things like almond milk, nutritional yeast, and some breakfast cereals are fortified with B12)

The long answer has to do with what B12 is (a bacteria-derived vitamin) and how life and society has changed in ways that makes this vitamin very hard to get naturally from any other sources (which is why pet food is all fortified with B12 as well, whether the animal is an herbivore or carnivore). While it's technically possible to get B12 without eating animal foods, as every herbivore in nature does (though rabbits eat their own shit to get B12, so I guess they technically eat an animal-derived food), it's not plausible to do so in modern living conditions. Much like many people need to supplement vitamin D due to inadequate exposure to sunlight (sitting in the house all day), vitamin B12 is a problem that stems more from unnatural lifestyle factors than from diet. The options are basically eat some animal foods or take a small pill every once in a while. In older people (50+), doctors will usually tell you to supplement B12 regardless of if you're vegan or not since some people aren't able to absorb enough B12 from food and older people are particularly susceptible to this malabsorption problem.

[Anonymous No.5737736]

>>5737123
Of course.

>>5737153
>>5737150
>>5737152
The yeast is actually fortified with B12 and doesn't produce it naturally. Only bacteria do that.

>>5737230
Grow your own veggies and you can have tons of B12 on your crops and leafy greens.

[Anonymous No.5737740]

>vegans have to supplement because their diet doesn't allow them to get the nutrients they need

Yeah... but it's "healthier" huh?