B12: What Every Vegan Needs to Know
B12 is often cited as a vitamin found naturally only in meat, dairy and other animal foods. The argument that ‘vegans have to take pills’ is used to claim that veganism is unnatural but, of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that.
B12 is naturally made by bacteria in soil and water but can be grown in industrial-sized vats for use as supplements. Traditionally, farmed animals would have got their B12 from water and eating food from the ground but with so many now confined in factory farms, animals themselves are given B12 supplements. So, contrary to what the meat industry adverts say,
