Timeline for Is it true that no traditional culture ever subsisted on a pure plant-based diet?
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| Apr 20, 2019 at 18:12 | comment | added | Nagev | My idea is also that the lack of B12 in our environment is due to our excessive use of chemicals in our water and soil, but I don’t have the scientific references to back it up, it just makes sense to me. So in ancient civilisations, they may have been able to obtain B12 without animal products. The Essenes are known to have been vegetarian at least. | |
| May 24, 2018 at 17:10 | comment | added | Alexander Rossa | @Geremia I am not familiar with that statement. As far as I know, B12 is traditionally of microbial origin and the sterility of the soil has little to do with it. Well, actually, if you ate your fruit and vegetables with soil/dirt on them then a microbacterially rich sil would probably provide you some B12 but (again, as far as I know) the B12 will not be passed to the plant at any circumstance and therefore does not constitute the nutritional value of the plant. | |
| May 24, 2018 at 15:23 | history | edited | Zanna♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2018 at 19:33 | comment | added | Geremia | Would've there been a B₁₂ deficiency in ancient civilizations? I thought that arose due to modern soil being more sterilized. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 17:22 | history | answered | Alexander Rossa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |