Let's get back to the vegan diet, because if my body runs out of something it was getting from my previous diet, I am screwed. So I better investigate this fast.
First of all, I am not an
ethical vegan, but merely a
dietary vegan. That is to say that I am only doing it for my health, and not out of respect for animals. Sure, I am glad that they're not getting hurt because of my new diet, but that's not what's motivating me, and such motivation would not be enough to make me stop eating animals if I found out I needed them (but I guess the same would apply also to the "ethical vegans").
Also, this means that if I find out that I can only get B12 from fish or supplements, as it seems, I'd rather eat fish than supplements. This is also because fish doesn't hurt my body as much as meat and all the other things I'll be avoiding.
So, keeping the above in mind, let's find resources, more resources than I've already found. Ideally, I'd like something simple, scientific, detailed. Like a list of things to eat, day by day, with exactly their content. It is simple and yet scientific at once. I don't care about goddamn recipes. I'll just whatever I have to eat even if it tastes awful. Actually the advantage of veganism should be that one doesn't have to cook or sit at the dinner table. Screw that social crap, waste of time.
This is lists to other resources:
Vegetarian Diet Resource Guide from Savvy Vegetarian
Vegan Diet Resources- Hungry Herbivores
Excellent news:
Vegsource - Your source for all things vegan and vegetarian.
Good point here on what I am, a "pure vegetarian":
Vegetarians in Paradise/Vegetarian Basics 101/Vegetarian Diet
VEGAN OR PURE VEGETARIAN: Vegan is pronounced "vee gun." Some people distinguish between vegan and pure vegetarian, considering the pure vegetarian one who eats no animal flesh, no dairy products, or no eggs, and follows a strict plant-based diet for dietary reasons only. While vegans follow a diet consisting of plant-based foods only, they are further committed to a philosophy that respects animal life and the ecology of the planet.
This is getting closer to what I wanted:
http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/MyVeganPlate.pdf
It really seems that B12 is hopeless from anything other than supplements, so I'll eat fish. So I guess I am not a vegan nor a vegetarian anymore. But close to it.
This is on
sprouting:
Sprouts for Optimum Nutrition
Cycling & Track Racing, Vegan-Style!: Sprouting 101 -- Nutrition
Now I am doing the same search but only on excel files, because it might be more science-oriented.
Good resources here:
http://www.sacramentovegetariansociety.org/images/SVS_Library_11-2010.xls
Nothing much yet. I need to work on my search words. Trying now with "nutrition metrics" and "nutrition calculator".
Getting closer:
Nutrition Metrics System
This is it, the type of thing I was looking for:
Sodexo Nutrition Calculator
Very interesting. Even McDonald's has one (they dare tell people the truth?):
Nutrition Calculator :: McDonalds.ca
Pretty amazing the information they give you. It even shows that if you eat there you're going to be deficient in carbohydrates, calcium, vitamins.
Furthermore it talks about the infamous "high fructose corn syrup" in the buns:
I was hearing about it in that video I posted yesterday:
Sugar: The Bitter Truth - YouTube
I've gone through many more calculators and I notice that they're down to a very few "nutrition facts":
1) saturated fat
2) trans fat
3) cholesterol
4) sodium
5) carbohydrates
6) fibre
7) sugar
8) protein
9) calcium
10) vitamin A
11) vitamin C
Where is vitamin b12 and all the minerals? This list is very incomplete but it's widely spread in every calculator. I wonder why. It probably has to do with what the government enforces as a standard. I need a better calculator.
Ok, got it. This is the best so far:
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Cowpeas, common (blackeyes, crowder, southern), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
Wow. Awesome web site, right place to build your diet - I just did a search for food highest in b12:
Foods highest in Vitamin B12
Quoting the top 10:
1
Mollusks, clam, mixed species, canned, drained solids
Vitamin B12: 99mcg
2
Mollusks, clam, mixed species, cooked, moist heat
Vitamin B12: 99mcg
3
Lamb, variety meats and by-products, liver, raw
Vitamin B12: 90mcg
4
Lamb, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, pan-fried
Vitamin B12: 86mcg
5
Veal, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, braised [calf liver]
Vitamin B12: 85mcg
6
Beef, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, pan-fried
Vitamin B12: 83mcg
7
Lamb, variety meats and by-products, kidneys, cooked, braised
Vitamin B12: 79mcg
8
Lamb, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, braised
Vitamin B12: 77mcg
9
Veal, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, pan-fried [calf liver]
Vitamin B12: 73mcg
10
Moose, liver, braised (Alaska Native)
Vitamin B12: 71mcg
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Foods highest in Vitamin B12
As I said before: I'll have to eat mollusks, which shows I am not an ethical vegan, but just a dietary one.
Wait, solved.
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Milk, dry, nonfat, regular, with added vitamin A
Ready brek Original cereal from Weetabix: Wholegrain, tasty goodness.
All I have to do for my daily intake is eat weetabix in one glass of milk, which does suck, well or 2 weetabix with water.
Damn, no. Weetabix doesn't have b12. Ready Brek does, but I don't have it.
Let's check kellogg's, because I have them.
Ok, it says they have b12:
Kellogg's® Special K® Original cereal
Vitamins and Minerals: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), reduced iron, vitamin E (alpha tocopherol acetate), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B1 (thiamin hydrochloride), vitamin A palmitate, folic acid, vitamin B2 (riboflavin), niacinamide, vitamin B12.
But how much?
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Cereals ready-to-eat, KELLOGG, KELLOGG'S SPECIAL K
It seems that we can still trust kellogg's to care for our well-being. No aspartame or fluoride in them?
Damn, aspartame yes, but not all their cereals:
List of Aspartame Containing Ice Cream and Desserts :
Fluoride, no, according to this:
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Cereals ready-to-eat, KELLOGG, KELLOGG'S PRODUCT 19
Incidentally, read this:
Flouride: Friend or Foe? Part 3
Since April 1997, the Food and Drug Administration has required a warning label on all dental care products containing fluoride. Early tests in the 1930s warned of the dangers of fluoride for human ingestion. At this time, manufacturers of aluminum were selling unwanted waste by-products of sodium fluoride as rat poisons and insecticides, but they needed other markets to rid themselves of more of this hazardous waste. Through a series of inventive mass marketing and public relations campaigns, the leaders of dentistry, medicine and public health were persuaded that fluoridation was not only safe but also beneficial to humans. In 1950, long before any studies had been completed to show the safety factor involved, both the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorsed fluoridation.
More here on Kellogg's involvement in this scam:
Kellogg 1
The US was a sick country probably since the beginning of last century. Things did not go wrong just recently with 911. Prohibition shows it. Prohibition of hemp shows it. Fluoridation shows it. Kennedy's assassination shows it. The moon landing hoax. The list of events deceiving the public is long. The corporations hijacked the country a century ago.
Democracy only lives on in the media and especially in Hollywood's movies. Today we have "plutocracy":
Plutocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plutocracy (from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος, ploutos, meaning "wealth", and κράτος, kratos, meaning "power, dominion, rule") is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.
Here, others agree with me:
Modern usage
In modern times, the term is sometimes used pejoratively to refer to societies rooted in state-corporate capitalism or which prioritize the accumulation of wealth over other interests. According to Kevin Phillips, author and political strategist to U.S. President Richard Nixon, the United States is a plutocracy in which there is a "fusion of money and government."[5] A similar position was taken by the Fourth International in January 1941, which stated "Roosevelt’s administration, which claims to be democratic, is really the representative of these piratic plutocrats" and that "the twin capitalist parties control all the main avenues for reaching the masses (the press, radio, halls, etcetera... they collect millions from their wealthy masters and spend them to bamboozle the public and buy elections". [6]
Here's more on the subject:
Corporate republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A corporate republic is a theoretical form of government occasionally hypothesized in works of science fiction, though some historical nations such as medieval Florence might be said to have been governed as corporate republics. While retaining some semblance of republican government, a corporate republic would be run primarily like a business, involving a board of directors and executives. Utilities, including hospitals, schools, the military, and the police force, would be privatized. The social welfare function carried out by the state is instead carried out by corporations in the form of benefits to employees. Although corporate republics do not exist officially in the modern world, they are often used in works of fiction or political commentary as a warning of the perceived dangers of unbridled capitalism. In such works, they usually arise when a single, vastly powerful corporation deposes a weak government, over time or in a coup d'état.
Some political scientists have also considered state socialist nations to be forms of corporate republics; with the state assuming full control of all economic and political life and establishing a monopoly on everything within national boundaries - effectively make the state itself equatable to a giant corporation.