daphne's and drumming's vegan thread

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pure vegans that don't take certain supplements because they're made from animals. this will turn into a b12 deficiency (as Daphne mentioned in her last post). the only way that b12 can be absorbed into one's body is with some sort of animal fat. this is literally the only way it can be absorbed. the only vitamins that will work (when speaking on b12) have animal fat in them in some form, but these are the same vitamins that pure vegans won't touch, if they're completely strict and anal retentive.

you may be taking vitamins to supplement your system that include b12, but that doesn't mean it's not going right back out of you. the only people who can live on a diet void of b12 are the people who culturally haven't eaten it for a long ass time, and they've adapted their bodies. for the general person, though, if you're a strict vegan, your body will start to get weaker by about age 30ish (generally). there are some exceptions, but the general public reacts this way.

i'm not trying to dissuade anyone here from being vegitarian or vegan, because i was one for 3 years. i still had milk and eggs (what is known as an ovo-lacto vegitarian, for those of you who are going to say 'buy you weren't a real vegitarian', yes i was. i just wasn't vegan). i stopped because my body was craving some mad cheeseburgers, and i felt myself being a lot weaker. now i'm just more careful in the amount of meat i eat, and sometimes i forget to eat it all together.

my point is that if you're vegan to the point that i have mentioned, you might want to consider taking the regular vitamins, not the vegan ones, because you'll probably get really weak. (this isn't an issue if you still eat some form of animal protein, such as eggs or milk).