Comments by "Bazileia" (@bazileia9222) on "A Boy Ate Only Chips And French Fries For 10 Years. This Is What Happened To His Eyes." video.
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@lennert9756 no, meat is not the primarily source of B12.
"The only organisms to produce vitamin B12 are certain bacteria, and archaea. Some of these bacteria are found in the soil around the grasses that ruminants eat; they are taken into the animal, proliferate, form part of their gut flora, and continue to produce vitamin B12."
Suppliments are fine, and his data (as he unfortunately implied in his video) on the fact that vegas are the only ones with b12 deficiencies is erroneous.
Are there vegans (especially from raw vegan communities) that have severe b12 deficiencies?
Yes, there are, but there are also people with a traditional diet with same problem, mainly because with ageing people tend to absorb harder this nutrient. So older people, regardless of their choice of diet should in many cases include B12 supplements.
Meat is an unsuitable food choice for a 7.6 billion human population, when 80% of the land used, is used to grow fodder for animals that are grown for meat.
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@robertkalinic335 "Agriculture contributes 11% to global greenhouse gas emissions with ruminants adding methane. Among the gases from livestock and poultry that are potential problems are the following: carbon dioxide, ammonia, total reduced sulfur including hydrogen sulfide, and water vapor together with odors."
"All animals influence the environment to varying extents. The production of livestock and poultry has marked impacts on the environment influencing water, air, and soil. Manure or animal waste is the predominant source of concern particularly with intensive animal agriculture. At the time of writing, in the USA, livestock and poultry produce 120 million metric tons of manure in dry weight. Some researchers put the impact of animal agriculture at 27% of total human water usage globally for the production of livestock (including water used to grow the feed grains)." - Impact of Agricultural Animals on the Environment by Colin G.Scanes, from science direct
The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. All agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment. Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production are pollution through fossil fuel usage, animal methane, effluent waste, and water and land consumption. Meat is obtained through a variety of methods, including organic farming, free range farming, intensive livestock production, subsistence agriculture, hunting, and fishing.
Meat is considered one of the prime factors contributing to the current sixth mass extinction.[1][2][3][4] The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services found that industrial agriculture and overfishing are the primary drivers of the extinction crisis, with the meat and dairy industries having a substantial impact.[5][6] The 2006 report Livestock's Long Shadow, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, states that "the livestock sector is a major stressor on many ecosystems and on the planet as a whole. Globally it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) and one of the leading causal factors in the loss of biodiversity, while in developed and emerging countries it is perhaps the leading source of water pollution."[7] - from wikipedia
There are also chapters about animal agriculture and it's impact over environment in latest 2018 UN report.
And there are many many more articles if you simply google "animal agriculture and environment"
Now dear griffter, you present your sources for your bullshit claims.
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@BobArctor also, unlike you I have a master degree ih journalism. And this is the list for the sources on which the wikipedia article that I've quoted was based on:
Morell, Virginia (2015). "Meat-eaters may speed worldwide species extinction, study warns". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aad1607.
Machovina, B.; Feeley, K. J.; Ripple, W. J. (2015). "Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption". Science of the Total Environment. 536: 419–431.
Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Haff, P. K.; Schwägerl, Christian; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Ellis, Erle C. (2015). "The Anthropocene Biosphere". The Anthropocene Review. 2 (3): 196–219.
Smithers, Rebecca (5 October 2017). "Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy our meat needs are destroying planet". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
McGrath, Matt (6 May 2019). "Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction'". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2019. Pushing all this forward, though, are increased demands for food from a growing global population and specifically our growing appetite for meat and fish.
And plus another 120 sources... go check it before saying stupid things.
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