Even if you'd get all the B12 from recycling, natural food and body manufacturing (which this thread is about - see the earlier posts) - the reliability of these amounts doesn't necessarily apply to people who don't live the way most people live today, consuming a lot of B12 antagonistic substances...
By using a computer we support lots of company providing all the different parts in it, and buying B12 from a health food store can't be worse than buying some kilograms of iPods, radios, TVs, PCs or anything else. If the problem is the lack of organic labeling, and not that a product isn't organic as such (because it may be organic even if it doesn't say organic on the package), I guess the solution either is to check if the product in question is organic, or accept that lots of what we consume isn't organically produced.
B12 is counted in microgram (mcg). A mcg is a mg/1000 mg, which is a g/1000 g, which is a kg/1000. Even if you would eat an average of 3 mcg B12 every day throughout your life, and become 80 years old, your total B12 consumption is less than 100 mg - in other words, less than a 100,000th of a gram.
It would take 100,000 B12 chewing people a lifetime to reduce the worldwide consumption of inorganic B12 by one gram!!!
I always prefer organic stuff myself, but focus on food... I agree that it's good to support the 'good' companies whenever possible, and use supplements (if needed) that are non-synthetic; the body is normally more 'friendly' with organic than synthetic stuff anyway. Let's hear what you find out, but just make sure don't become a "
Self Exhausting Microgram-Oriented Vegan"...
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