How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

[Little Rik]

In this issue of the Journal, Refsum et al (4) report that ≈75% of a selected urban population from India (Pune, Maharashtra State) had metabolic evidence (hyperhomocysteinemia and methylmalonic acidemia) consistent with cobalamin deficiency [B12] that can only partly be explained by a vegetarian diet.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/2/1...f_ipsecsha

Your original claim was that, "You can find every thing that you find in meat in fruits, nuts, beans, vegies, root foods without all the crap that you find in meat." However, even you acknowledge that this is not true, that you need to supplement it with bacteria and other incidentals from the environment. Supplementing is supplementing, whether it comes from a pill or from dirty water. Moreover your assertion is only consistent with those who can supplement their diet with these intestinal flora. For the greater part of the world, either the environment doesn't provide such, or the food delivery system upon which the people depend cannot provide it. So, no, they cannot "find every thing that you find in meat in fruits, nuts, beans, vegies, root foods." Your original claim was both false, and your expanded claim represents a pie in the sky impracticality which is only available to a select few. So, no, you are simply wrong.

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My original claim stand up very well yog.
As far as you eat those items that I mentioned (plus grains that I forgot to mention) then you get your b12.
If however you wash them up you strip them of the microorganisms that carry b12.
In that case you need a b12 supplement but I don t because I know how to deal with the issue. Also my doctor that check me regularly has nt found any deficency of b12 on me.
Most people however do not know how to deal with the issue so they need supplements that is their problem and therefore doesn t mean I
was wrong.
Also your link about Indian vegetarian is a load of BS.
India in the last 50 years has changed more than in the last 500 years. From a traditional way of life to a fast race to catch up with the west. In this way they screwed up all the good that they had. That means also their health.
No wonder that their bodies lack so many vitamins including b12.
India heavy pollution also drains your body from all good things you carry in your body.
Obviously the study you present did nt take in consideration of all these issues.