BTW. B12 grows on bacteria.
Unusual Suspects never admits he's wrong or apologize. I admit to my
mistakes. Mature people do. You did great service.

We need more vegans to retake this group from this hostile individual
unable to admit mistakes.


Laurie wrote:

> "Light Cutter" > wrote in message
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>>Vitamin B-12 (Cobalamin) is not bioavailable in plant form.
>
> Actually, it is...
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> Mozafar, A.
> Enrichment of some B-vitamins in plants with application of organic
> fertilizers.
> Plant and Soil 167:305-311, 1994.
> Organic food suppliers often claim that organic foods grown on soils with
> natural fertilizers have a better nutritional value than foods grown with
> inorganic fertilizers. Although past studies, such as those published by
> Gray and Daniel in 1959 or by Leclerc and colleagues in 1991, have shown
> that organically grown produce had more vitamins, it was unclear if the
> plants synthesized them or got them from the soil. In order to test the
> origins of vitamins in plants, this researcher selected vitamin B12 for
> study. This was because plants cannot manufacture it but microorganisms can.
> In addition, large amounts of B12 are found in animal manure, a commonly
> used organic fertilizer. This study looked at whether plants, specifically
> soybeans, barley, and spinach, grown on soils amended with pure B12 or B12
> in manure would have a higher B12 content than plants grown with inorganic
> fertilizers. All plants contained a minimal amount of B12 in the
> inorganically fertilized soil. Barley showed a threefold increase of B12 in
> the harvested grain in both the pure B12 treatment (10.8 ng/g dry weight)
> and the manure treatment (9.1 ng/g dry weight). In spinach leaves, B12
> increased twofold in the manure treatment (17.8 ng/g dry weight) and 34-fold
> in the pure B12 treatment (235 ng/g dry weight). Soybeans had a similar, but
> not as dramatic trend. In addition, soil samples in fields receiving manure
> over several years contained more B12 than those only receiving inorganic
> fertilizers. These results show that B12 levels can be increased in
> organically grown food through the use of manure fertilizers. This is good
> news for vegetarians, who often have trouble getting enough B12 in their
> diets. It is also good news for consumers who buy organic food because of
> its better nutritional value. While this preliminary trial does seem to
> indicate that vitamins can be absorbed from the soil, more studies should be
> done with other vitamins to confirm these observations.
>
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>>The best way to get B-12 is from Meat.
>
> http://www.ecologos.org/B-12.htm
>
>
> A study I found while doing some research:
> http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/72/3/762
>
>
>>... who consumed macrobiotic (vegan type) diets ...
>
> The macrochaotic diet is a particularly horrific diet, consisting of
> cooked grains and beans, essentially nothing raw, and no fruit.
> It is not representative of a "vegan" diet.
>
>
>>Results: The control subjects performed better on most psychological tests
>>than did macrobiotic subjects with low or normal [sic] cobalamin status.
>
> Then, "normal", i.e. meatarian, cobalamin status did -not- support
> better performance.
>
> Laurie
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