"Beach Runner" > wrote in message
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> BTW. B12 grows on bacteria.
> Unusual Suspects never admits he's wrong or apologize. I admit
> to my mistakes.
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No, you don't liar. Where's your calculations on water useage,
fool? Are you continuing to spew that ly?


Mature people do. You did great service.
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> We need more vegans to retake this group from this hostile
> individual unable to admit mistakes.
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Ummmm, yep, sounds just like you, and every other wannbe vegan
here. There are NO real vegans on usenet, killer.



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> Laurie wrote:
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>> "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
>>