Vegetarians and B12

OntheDL said:

Ha...you don't need milk, eggs and beef to obtain B12 or the vegetarian diet would fail, right?

We produce B12 naturally, under our tongue over night. It's produced from bacteria. Just eat your breakfast before brushing your teeth or drink 1 glass of water before brushing.

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"Adventist health scientist Matt Steele wondered about this for a long time. Vitamin B12 is almost the universal product of bacterial action. So it dawned on him that it might have come from natural drinking water -- which would have had many bacteria in its catchment area. He tested the water in the Yarra River near Warburton Adventist Hospital in Australia. The river water there is good drinking quality. When he tested it, he found one litre (two pints) of the water contained the Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamin B12."
http://www.tagnet.org/adventist.fm/health/heallup.htm


"Vitamin B-12 is synthesized by single-celled microbes (bacteria) that live in the soils of the earth. And long ago when the earth and soils were healthy, before we put all sorts of chemicals on them, the surface of the earth was covered with vitamin B-12. There used to be lots of vitamin B-12 in our lives. Even if you were a pure vegetarian 300 years ago, you could open up the back door of your cottage and outside would be a beautiful organic garden. Every carrot you pulled out of the ground would have little particles of vitamin B-12 sticking to it. When it came time to get your water, you'd take a bucket of water out of the stream, and there too you would find vitamin B-12. There would be B-12 under your finger nails from working in the garden. There would be plenty of B-12 in your life, and since you needed so little of it, concerns about deficiency would not be an issue.

"We've become very isolated from the earth and we've lost our natural sources of B-12. Cows have B-12 in their muscles because they're eating grass all day and their pulling up clumps of dirt that have B-12 producing organisms clinging to the root of the grass. They eat the B-12 producing organisms who produce the B-12, which gets absorbed into their bloodstream, goes out into the muscles, and is deposited into their muscles and livers. But that is bacterial B-12 in the cow's muscle. The cow did not make it, nor did the pig or chicken. "

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OntheDL said:

The same reason cows produce B12, not because it's cows, but because of bacteria. Humans produce B12 naturally over night in saliva deposited under the tongue. Don't you think God thought of that when He devised the original diet? Science is always playing catching up to God.

BTW, I wouldn't say EGW advocated eggs and milk. She permitted the use in the case of physical needs/illness.

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