How do vitamin supplements affect the environment?
where can i find some facts about forestry and anything else relevant
HAHAHAHA what the hell!!
i’m asking basically how do they derive the vitamins for the supplements and how does it impact the environment… like in terms of logging of trees and soil degradation or whatever.
just basically how does the production of vitamin supplements affect the environment.
i’m asking because as an anaemic vegetarian i have been advised to take supplements, but i also care deeply for the environment and want to know the facts. thank you
try this link
http://vegetarian.about.com/
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maggi
Vitamins are packaged in plastic containers. The industries of the world contribute to global warming, due to wastes.
Vitamins are carted around the world, which uses fossil fuels to transport, leading to global warming.
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has a section of their site devoted to vitamins and supplements with links to a bunch of articles you could pursue:
http://organicconsumers.org/nutricon.cfm
Also in that section are excerpts from "The Vitamin Myth Exposed" by Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute exploring how vitamins work, synthetic versus natural and more:
Prologue & Chapter 1
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3697.cfm
Chapter 2
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3900.cfm
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The supplement industry is huge and big business so like corporate food it tends to go for profit at the expense of the ingredients. Because of loopholes basically the only oversight is that as long as people don’t die and no claims are made (such as "Vitamin C keeps colds from occurring…" — this keeps us from getting good info on benefits possible too) then pretty much anything can be sold as a supplement. There is many reasons to go with a more expensive vitamin.
Just as an aside, low B12 is often the cause of anemia (in everyone not just veg*ns who don’t seem to show more susceptibility to deficiency for lack of meat — 40% of the population is low while only 3 to 5% of the population in the US is veg*n) even though most people believe anemia is from lack of iron. This can be dangerous because iron is easy to get too much of yet few are aware of how badly it can affect things.
http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/vitamins/iron-overdose.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_poisoning
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/vitamin-b12-deficiency-anemia-topic-overview
Good lord, that’s far too wide a question to get meaningful answers.
Either focus on one company, or one vitamin.
There are so many supplements out there, and so many different companies making them in so many different ways.
Many are purely synthetic in nature, some are extracted, and others are natural.
Try focusing one one vitamin, or one manufacturing method. Otherwise it’s far too much.
EDIT : Your health is foremost, try to find an enviromentally friendly company that manufactures it, but please don’t let yourself get ill. Otherwise who will fight?
well.. if rabbits took vitamin B supplements then they wouldnt need to eat their own crap.. therefore there would be more rabbit poo around..
which in turn could contribute to more plants
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Genius right?
I have no idea what you’re actually asking lol
It would take a term paper to cover how the production of vitamins effects the environment. The most damage would come from strip mining to get minerals.
Just make sure your buying vitamins made by a company that has a good environmental track record. I’d ask in the Environment forum of YA.