Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Rice, beans, and the "myth" of protein combining" video.

@epistax4 I suppose for the same reason iron isn't a vitamin. It has uses outside the human body, so we give it its name based on its more popular uses
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@EpicBunty Read what I wrote again, slowly. Veganism isn't natural, vegetarianism and omnivorism are. Got it?
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@PippetWhippet If I'm not mistaken, you'd need to eat a lot of butter to reach an amount where you can avoid skin issues. I think his larger point (in spite of his bad username) is that humans cannot naturally be vegan. We need to either kill or extract from animals if we want to live. There are fortified foods now, but that is not possible without modern technology. Veganism isn't the more "natural" way to live; vegatarianism or omnivorism is.
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@EpicBunty Well, you'll need to unfortunately, that's solely what makes something correct or not. Besides tempeh and nori (which are tricky to grow industrially), the only way to be vegan is with fortified foods. Otherwise, the lack of vitamin B-12 causes severe skin problems and eventually permanent nerve damage. For whatever reason, humans evolved to eat meat and have become physically dependent on a nutrient only animal products can provide (no longer true with lab supplements). Only ruminants (cows, sheep, etc- anything w/ multiple stomachs) can digest the B-12 found in plants (which we can't eat, because silica, also found in plants, is lethal to humans). If you want to be vegan, you simply cannot claim to be living "naturally." If B-12 foritifed foods vanished from your life tomorrow, you'd need to either fly to Japan, or start milking, or eating, animals. Hard truth.
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