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Hello there,

In modern times, farmed animals are absolutely supplemented with B12. See below.

https://www.valleyvet.com/rooster-booster-liquid-b-12-plus-vitamin-k

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/durvet-hi-level-vitamin-b-complex

https://www.nbinno.com/article/nutritional-chemicals/vitamin-b12-feed-additive-animal-nutrition-mo

https://spectrumcare.pet/farm-animals/pig/medications/cobalamin

In the past (pre-industrial revolution), B12 was plentiful in meat, eggs, untreated drinking water, and even on vegetables due to trace amounts of untreated dirt. This is no longer the case.

See the valleyvet link above? I imagine this "Rooster Booster" supplement and others like it are adding a substantial amount of B12 to the eggs and other items.

You seem to be romanticizing nature, thinking that if you can't do something without technology, then it's not good? Without technology, none of us would be alive. Factories are good. Supplements are good. Health is good. This is human.

Nature is good too. But humans are very smart and inventive. We're able to harness the benefits of nature while protecting ourselves from the downsides of it (to a degree).

Even if you don't take the pill yourself, you would still run out of B12 if your animals weren't getting it.

If we as a society stopped all supplementation, you and I would probably run out of B12 reserves at the same time. You are supplementing B12, you're just not aware of it.

I look forward to your response bro,

Hello there. That's new.

Three replies ago you were "huh" and "idk, look it up." Now it's tidy paragraphs, a link pile, and "this is human." You turned a robot on. It didn't read the labels either. That's the slop. Dressed up, and still wrong.

Rooster Booster is a chicken bottle. It says poultry. Stress, illness, appetite. Then you wrote "I imagine" it dumps a substantial amount of B12 into eggs. Imagine harder. A guess with a URL under it is still a guess.

Durvet is a shot. Injectable. Cattle, sheep, swine, when the animal is sick, stressed, or short. That is a vet rescue, not the reason a steer on grass has B12 in the meat. You found a syringe and called it the food chain.

The pig link is a pig. Pigs don't have a rumen. You googled the wrong stomach and acted like you found the conspiracy.

Here is the part your helper didn't check. A cow does not get her B12 from a pill. Bacteria in the rumen make it out of cobalt in the grass. That ran before factories and it still runs. Cobalt is a mineral in the dirt. It is not a B12 capsule. She builds the vitamin. You buy the vitamin. Chickens and pigs are a different animal. They don't make it. She does. You stacked four links from three species and pretended they were one fact.

So no. If the pills stopped tomorrow I would not run out with you. My beef still makes it. Your carrot still doesn't. Your stores last 2 to 5 years, which is why you feel fine and think that means you won.

And then the robot said the quiet part for you. Factories are good. Supplements are good. This is human. You stopped arguing the diet is complete. You're proud it has a pharmacy. That's the concession.

An ethic that needs a syringe to keep its own story standing isn't an ethic. It's a subscription with a manifesto.

And keep supporting, bro. Your last reply was free. How many more you got?

That's how Stasher works. Put your money where your mouth is boi

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hello there,

Why do you think virtually all farm animals are supplemented with B12?

Yeah I know about that thing where the gut creates it.... but in modern times without that supplement their gut won't create it.

Do you think farmers are spending their hard-earned money on B12 supplements for their animals for no reason? Why would they spend all that money if the animals' guts supplied it reliably?

Did you read the links I posted?

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