[halostatue]

Not sure how you got that from anything I’ve written, because it’s not what I said.

What I said is the FDA shouldn’t be promoting junk recommendations as if it were gold-standard science.

There are good scientific reasons to avoid animal fats in one’s diet. There are no good scientific reasons to add them back to one’s diet.

In moderation, they aren’t harmful and may indeed improve the flavour or texture of certain dishes when had in moderation. I personally love making butter sage gnocchi or ravioli (it doesn’t work as well with olive oil), but I only make it every couple of months.

Beyond everything else, we know that replacing animal protein with plant protein is a good way to improve health. But it’s not accessible or acceptable to everyone. It’s also not necessarily a good use of some land — land that might be perfectly suited to raising goats is poor for growing crops for human consumption.

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How do you incorporate Vitamin B12 into your diet?

[halostatue]

I'm not vegan, but ovo-lacto vegetarian, so B12 deficiency isn't anything I've ever had to worry about.

With appropriate fortified foods (synthesized bacterial sources adding B12 to nutritional yeast, plant milks, etc.), vegans don't need to worry about it either.

A quick bit of research suggests that as much at 16% of meat eaters have B12 deficiency, so it's a systemic problem.