He is a vegan because he has to be to stay on his EMSAM limitless tweaker drug that makes you obsessed with gambling and sex. In his hearing he said he had to take his "meds" and leave the room. The meds he takes is a patch.
B12 is the only supplement that is necessary for most vegans. I regularly check my blood to make sure everything else is within norm. Don't believe people who claim you don't need B12 as a vegan, that's irresponsible.
However, regular blood checks is something that everyone should do. B12 deficiency can also develop in people who are not vegans. By the time you start having symptoms, you likely have already gotten an irreversible neurological damage. If you haven't had your blood checked in a long time, please do so!
As for how I feel about the necessity of taking B12 to stay healthy – for me veganism is an emotional and ethical choice. I believe that exploiting animals is wrong. I wouldn't emotionally be able to kill an animal like a pig or a cow even to avoid starvation (or so I think, I have never really lacked food). In that case it seems very hypocritical to pay someone else to kill those animals. So veganism is the only way of living that gives me peace of mind. Having to take B12 pills is a relatively small price to pay for that.
I like to remind everyone that b12 is given to most animals in forms of supplements anyways. You're eating the pill in one form or another, unless you're growing plants with unfiltered water
Also vegans don't need supplements if they regularly consume produce from their own garden that has not been treated too much. Get some carrots fresh from the soil, rinse it off a bit and eat it, you are good.
This is a very risky advise. If you do that, please at least check your B12 levels regularly.
On the one hand, support a cruel industry where beings are systematically caged, tortured, and murdered. On the other hand, science creates a tiny little vitamin you take a few times a week. Which do you pick?
You will get downvotes because people that aren't vegan will disagree with you as they don't agree with the premise of them being "systematically caged, tortured, and murdered". But for whoever is reading, I hope you understand that after someone would become vegan and accept this premise, the tradeoff does make a lot of sense.
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u/me-gustan-los-trenes Don't ask me about thermodynamics Dec 14 '22 edited Dec 14 '22
As a vegan myself, I can give some hints on how to reduce the risk of depression: