What does meat have that you cant get out of veggies?!

No, it's not a lie. I'll finish the sentence: You can't get Vitamin B12 from plants.

Who says so? VeganHealth, VRD, The Vegan Society ALL say you should supplement your diet with B12. Would they lie to you?

From VeganHealth: "B12 is generally found in all animal foods (except honey). Contrary to rumors, there are no reliable, unfortified plant sources of vitamin B12, including tempeh, seaweeds, and organic produce. The overwhelming consensus in the mainstream nutrition community, as well as among vegan health professionals, is that plant foods do not provide vitamin B12, and fortified foods or supplements are necessary for the optimal health of vegans, and even vegetarians in many cases. Luckily, vitamin B12 is made by bacterial fermentation such that it does not need to be obtained from animal products."

Unless you eat animal products, you have to supplement Vitamin B12 in shots, pills or by eating highly processed fortified foods. Not exactly a "natural" diet, is it?

http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/vita…

Vitamin B12 is a product of bacteria-- not animals or plants. It's the only known vitamin to come exclusively from microorganisms and nowhere else in nature. But it ends up in animals and animal products because they digest it. Because of modern agriculture, hygiene, and water treatment, unless you eat animal products in the modern world, you cannot say you're picking up a regular source of vitamin B12. Plants don't digest or absorb it like animals do. We're not the only animals that would have problems with it. The diet of a cow is supplemented with cobalt to help the bacteria in their guts product vitamin B12. So when you eat that beef, or drink that milk, you may very well be eating the product of supplementation anyway. It's important that if you're vegan, you include a source of vitamin B12 in your diet, through fortified food or nutritional yeast-- in the same way that meat eaters and vegetarians get iodine from iodized salt or vitamin D from milk. If not fortified food, then use a supplement.

It's really a load of crap :/ The only thing is b-12 and you can get that from nutritional yeast. I mean, unless you want cholesterol :D There is loads of that in meat, dairy and eggs! Here is something that helped me answer my Vegan questions :)

http://www.vegan-nutritionista.com/

Becoming Vegan is a wonderful thing!

The only thing you can't get naturally from any vegetable source is vitamin B-12, which is easy enough to get from fortified foods (cereal, soy milk, nutritional yeast) or a multivitamin.

Nothing, Being Vegan is healthier

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I spent a lot of my life alternating between vegetarianism and eating meat. Yes, meat does have things that your body needs; proteins which contain amino acids to help your body cells, iron, and vitamins. However, you can get these from other sources. LOAD UP ON THE BEANS AND PEANUT BUTTER. Kale and dark greens are also GREAT substitutions. I talked to my doctor and a nutritionist about these when I was a vegetarian.

Veggies do not have the delicious flavor of meat.

Becoming vegan (or not) is not dangerous to your health if you know what you're doing.

Protein. Which can cause fainting (which I learned the hard way) eat plenty of peanut butter to get protein or protein bars and you should be good.

Taste and the satisfaction of knowing that an animal died just to become your meal.