You can get vitamin a from carotene which is common in a lot of foods, notably carrots. Even if it wasn’t , same with b12, this is the 21st century, we can synthesize any vitamin , either chemically or with bacteria, without harming animals.
No but a vast majority of people can, so vitamin a deficiency is not a concern for the millions of people living healthily on plant based diets. And again for those that aren’t able to synthesize it they can take synthesized retinol supplements without needing to eat meat.
but, to be clear, plants don’t have vitamin a, so your claim that the only nutrient they don’t have is B12 is wrong. and you seem to know it was incorrect, meaning you lied.
I didn’t lie, all the articles I read and my understanding when I posted the first comment was that b12 was the only vitamin you can’t get from a plant based diet. Most of the articles don’t mention vitamin a because the precursor is common and it is not a concern for the great majority of people on plant based diets. Your comment made me research further to discover that carotene is technically just a precursor.
Your resorting to pedentry to avoid trying to refute the fact that most dietary experts agree that a plant based diet can be just as healthy, if not more so then a diet with meat.
There is in fact a whole array of vitamins and nutrients that are not produced by plants or animals but rather by the microbes living in or around those plants and animals.
that’s not true. vitamin A, for example.
You can get vitamin a from carotene which is common in a lot of foods, notably carrots. Even if it wasn’t , same with b12, this is the 21st century, we can synthesize any vitamin , either chemically or with bacteria, without harming animals.
you don’t get it: you synthesize it. and not everyone is good at that
No but a vast majority of people can, so vitamin a deficiency is not a concern for the millions of people living healthily on plant based diets. And again for those that aren’t able to synthesize it they can take synthesized retinol supplements without needing to eat meat.
but, to be clear, plants don’t have vitamin a, so your claim that the only nutrient they don’t have is B12 is wrong. and you seem to know it was incorrect, meaning you lied.
I didn’t lie, all the articles I read and my understanding when I posted the first comment was that b12 was the only vitamin you can’t get from a plant based diet. Most of the articles don’t mention vitamin a because the precursor is common and it is not a concern for the great majority of people on plant based diets. Your comment made me research further to discover that carotene is technically just a precursor.
Your resorting to pedentry to avoid trying to refute the fact that most dietary experts agree that a plant based diet can be just as healthy, if not more so then a diet with meat.
I’m correcting misinformation
b12 and vitamin a aren’t the only nutrients, either
There is in fact a whole array of vitamins and nutrients that are not produced by plants or animals but rather by the microbes living in or around those plants and animals.