B-12

There's a new false idol in town - vitamin B-12.

Apparently, if you don't have enough of this particular vitamin in your diet, horrific things happen to you. Such as irritatibility and (sometimes) even exhaustion. As this site puts it, it's been 'implicited in a spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders'. It all sounds fairly grim.

However, there is good news. You can be spared a fate worse than death (or at least, some irritability) by eating your meat. That's right folks, this recent addition to the family of pseudo-scientific, self-perpetuating health fads is only found in meat.

Awesome.

For those vegetarians that are tired and run down.... depressed or irritable... or having trouble walking (?!), perhaps they just need a FAT STEAK. Ha!

To be honest, my dominant feeling towards vegetarians is pity (I save my anger and contempt for vegans). And if this particular new addition to the neo-nutritional canon helps convince them to join the sanguinary Light, well, it has my blessing...

Tired and run down? No appetite? Trouble walking? Depressed or irritable?

Such symptoms describe dozens of disorders. Yet many people aren’t tested for one possible cause: a deficiency of B-12, a vitamin essential to health that is found in meat and dairy products.

Those vulnerable to potentially serious complications from B-12 deficiency are senior citizens, strict vegetarians or vegans, bariatric and other stomach-surgery patients, and people who take certain diabetes, heartburn and ulcer medicines.... (full article from the Detroit Free Press)

According to the same article, the best foods for giving you your much-needed B-12 are mollusks, liver, wild salmon and venison. Some vegetarian-friendly products are commonly fortified with B-12, including soy and rice milk. It is, however, much easier to take a bite out of Bambi.