• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Vegetarian and vegan diets have been around for thousands of years in parts of Asia, well before B12 supplements. Cultures sorted out the nutritional requirements through ingredients, and the lack of B12 in western vegan diets has more to do with common western ingredients than some inherent problem with a plant based diet.

    I’m not even vegetarian or vegan, just annoyed with misconceptions about their feasibility.

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        6 months ago

        Ancient and prehistoric peoples didn’t care about dogma, being “vegan”, that’s a modern thing.

        That is why I was clear about the diets being around. Diets can exist without the dogma.

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      6 months ago

      Vegetarian and vegan diets have been around for thousands of years in parts of Asia, well before B12 supplements.

      Vegetarianism yes… veganism I don’t think that’s really plausible.

      I think this may come down to different cultures classifying what they consider to be meat.

      For example if you go to Korea, it’s really really simple to be a vegetarian and almost impossible to be a vegan. Most of your basic cooking spices are going to include things like dried krill powder. And if you asked the cook or waiter if there are meat or animal byproducts, they will tell you “no meat”.