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Question: Vegans: Is there no danger from having a B12 deficiency?
Tell that to this poor baby:

“Two strict vegans have gone on trial in France charged with “neglect or food deprivation” after the death of their breastfed 11-month-old daughter who was found to be suffering from vitamin deficiency.

Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou called an ambulance to their home in the village of Saint-Maulvis – 90 miles north of Paris – in March 2008 after their daughter Louise became listless. By the time paramedics arrived, the baby had died.

The police were alerted after the ambulance crew noticed the baby was pale and thin and a doctor refused to issue a death certificate. A postmortem showed the child, who had been fed only on her 37-year-old mother’s milk, weighed 5.7kg when she should have been about 8kg.

She was also suffering from deficiency of vitamins A and B12, which may have left her susceptible to infection. She died of a pneumonia-related illness.

Medical experts told the court in Amiens that the vitamin deficiency could have been caused by an unbalanced diet. While anxious not to call into question the couple’s lifestyle, Anne-Laure Sandretto, the deputy prosecutor, admitted: “The problem with a vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother’s eating habits.”

The parents, who also have a 13-year-old daughter who was not found to be suffering from any deficiencies, said they became vegan after seeing a TV programme about “how animals were taken to abattoirs”, said the mother’s lawyer, Stephane Daquo.

At the time of their daughter’s death, they were running an organic food business and refused to eat any animal products. Daquo said they had a mistrust of traditional medicine and preferred to treat their children’s complaints with advice from books.

“The couple did not follow the doctor’s advice to take the baby to hospital when they went for her nine-month checkup and found she was suffering from bronchitis and was losing weight,” he said. Instead they treated her with cabbage poultices, mustard and camphor and washed her with earth and clay instead of giving her baths, the court heard.

Daquo said the couple had been reading “the wrong things at the wrong moment”. “They preferred to use recipes [treatment] based on clay or cabbage poultices that they got from their books,” he said.

Patrick Quenel, lawyer for the father, whose business has gone into liquidation, said the couple were “completely aware of the mistakes they made”.

They have been charged with “neglect or food deprivation followed by death” and face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison if convicted. The hearing is expected to last until Friday.”

Oh, wait. You can’t tell the baby about it. She’s dead. Dead because her mom dididn’t take a B12 supplement!

ADDED: B12 is NOT available to humans in nori or chorella. Only, as I have pointed out over and over, in some sort of fake supplement form: shots, pills or manufactured and added to highly processed foods.

“…Contrary to rumors, there are no reliable, unfortified plant sources of vitamin B12, including tempeh, seaweeds, and organic produce. The overwhelming consensus in the mainstream nutrition community, as well as among vegan health professionals, is that plant foods do not provide vitamin B12, and fortified foods or supplements are necessary for the optimal health of vegans, and even vegetarians in many cases…”

Answer:

Answer by Leo
it sucks start getting on those vitamin, ppl don’t see the effects it has on them because they are so used to it, cause when they have one little bit of vitamin b12 they feel alot more alive, just imagine if u had ur daily b12 in its due amount…it’ll do u so good!

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