What? Uh. Hmmm. I can’t... Wait. What?

What was I going to write? um. Oh yeah....So this article came out today...

Going veggie shrinks the brain.

The beef industry must be looking for a boost in our "slumping economy"! This is making the rounds with talk radio and DJs, and might find its' way to cable news....and is including the usual anti-vegetarian sentiment. Everything I have heard so far uses the B12 part as a footnote. "Vegetarians have shrinking brains" is far more entertaining than "everyone should pay attention to their nutrition."

Is it really news that you need Vitamin B12? "Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anemia and inflammation of the nervous system." is probably news to most meat-eaters, because they pay very little attention to what they put into their bodies (don't get offended, it's true). B12's necessity to the brain and nervous system is also basic nutrition knowledge. Us vegetarians have to be amateur nutritionists, so this story gets a big "No Shit?!" from us. But it gives a nice opportunity for everyone else to point fingers and bask in their gluttony.

While we haven't gone completely vegan, we have a rule that we do not buy animal products at the grocery store. With that, I eat at least 100% daily value of my Vitamin B12 without trying. And since when did people stop taking daily multi-vitamins? Most multi-vitamins have 300% DV of B12. That puts me at a guaranteed 400%. No brain shrinkage here.

In the quest to demonize vegetarians and report what a vegetarian diet is "deficient" in, no one stops to think about the vegetables Americans don't eat...and in turn, the nutrition deficiency of macho-horseshit meat-and-potato diets. The iceberg lettuce on your hamburger doesn't count. When was the last time you ate spinach or cabbage?

Fact is, the industrialized food industry counts on the consumption of animal products. So being critical of a vegetarian diet is convenient for business. For example, the corn industry has been transformed to support this meat-centric system, and half of America's corn goes to feed America's cattle. What's this?! A documentary on the subject?! Great! Important fact, this mass-produced corn is not "corn on the cob" corn. It is a genetically modified, industrialized strain grown for feeding cattle and processed sweeteners.