Re: Veganism, Artificial Sperm

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote:
> However, you have to take supplements for 
> vitamin B12 since it
> cannot be obtained from plant food.  You probably know about this but here's 
> 
> a site explaining it:
> 
> http://www.vnv.org.au/Nutrition/B12&Veganism.htm

Yes.  I read a book on vegan nutrition and it said that very little B12 is
actually needed.  When I first became a vegan, I was diagnosed as anemic.  But,

now that my body has grown used to my diet, I am no longer anemic.  I do 
happen
to take multivitamins which have B12 in them (multivitamins help my hand
problems for some reason), but I probably would be OK even if these
multivitamins didn't have B12 in them.  (A number of recipes I have use
nutritional yeast which has B12 in it, so I could at least get it from that.)

> >One cookbook I have uses very few spices: People Who Love Animals cookbook. 
> >
> >  We
> >don't use it much since it is so bland, but it's heavy with tahini.
> 
> I'll take a look at that one.  I've heard of it but never looked into it.

Yeah.  You can't get it in bookstores.  I bought it years ago at a San
Francisco Vegetarian Society thingy at SFSU when I used to go there in 1989. 
Do a web search.

> Nope, you were right.  It is on the internet, and yes, they have created an 
> artificial sperm and produced offspring with mice -- all female, of course.  
> 
>   The lesbian world must be rejoicing......
> Seriously, there is parthenogenesis in nature, but its rare.  The most well 
> know is the whiptail lizards in the Sonoma.

Interesting.  I don't know if a world ruled by women would be a better place,
but who knows?

> --E.