• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Conventionally raised animals get all sorts of drugs, vitamins, etc. I’m sure.

    Cows and other ruminants wouldn’t normally need to be given B12 as it’s created by their gut microbiota and available to their bodies. If they are indeed supplemented with B12 I wonder if it’s because a corn based diet doesn’t support a microbiome that can create B12?

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      6 months ago

      @mojo_raisin It’s because of factory farming which is 97%+ of all production. Factory farmed animals don’t have access to a healthy soil where they would normally get their B12 and other nutrients. That means rising animals for mass consumption is totally wrong.

      Same goes with humans. People today are so separated from the healthy soil, they lack B12.

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        6 months ago

        First part makes sense. Humans, like other primates get B12 (outside of supplementation) from either eating animal/dairy, bugs, or feces, since humans can produce B12 in our guts, but really only in our colon where it’s not available to us.