Tanuki,
Where do vegan macrobiotics get Vitamin B-12?
It's obvious!
From other vegan macrobiotics!
Actually it all depends what you believe!
I imagine that most longtime macrobiotic people would agree with Alex Jack who says,, that vitamin B-12 can be "obtained from tempeh, miso, shoyu, (natto), and other fermented soyfoods; kombu, nori and other sea vegetables; and naturally processed pickles and sauerkraut! It is also known to be found in abundance in animal foods and in healthy individuals can be synthesized in the small intestine. B-12 deficiency causes pernicious anemia. Stored in the liver for three to six years, B-12 is depleted by coffee, alcohol, tobacco, antibiotics, birth control pills, liver diseases, chronic disorders, and injury or stress," as he has written in
Let Food Be Thy Medicine : 750 Scientific Studies and Medical Reports Showing the Personal and Planetary Environmental Benefits of Whole Foods.
Others like Christina Pirello in
My Vitamin B12 Dilemma believe in supplementation for a vegan macrobiotic diet.
Call me a sexist but I'm a few times a week fish eating macro who's attracted to vegan macrobiotic women and if anyone feels the need to be vegan and also do supplements, more power to them, though if I were vegan I would put my trust in organic naturally processed whole foods, until I felt the need to do something different!.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine