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Ok, name me a nutrient and I'll give you either a plant-based source of it or evidence that your body or gut biome produces it itself

And yeah, I agree, if you want to have a healthy diet you need to read up on dietology and/or visit a dietologist. But this has nothing to do with veganism, omnivores need to do it too.

There is no communist country on this planet, all examples you are thinking about are countries which have achieved socialism to some degree. Most of them are ruled by parties which want to achieve communism eventually (and thus call themselves communist parties). Nobody is claiming that those countries have achieved communism.

And also, working people in those countries have it much better than their capitalist neighbours. There is a very clear difference if you look at speed of quality of life changes, HDI improvements, wealth distribution, or minority rights.

So, what is your proposal? This is not a rhetorical question, I've thought and read about it for a while and it seems to me like the least bad practical option, because the others are:

• Kill them directly (way more suffering, seems worse)
• Release them into the wild, ensuring most die from hunger or predators and destroy entire ecosystems (seems worse to me as well)
• Keep them in the same hellhole farms where they already are, but stop insemination and ensure sex separation (seems the same as sterilization but with another way to remove autonomy)
• Magically build shelters for them and let them reproduce freely while providing them with food. This is (1) pretty much impossible economically, (2) clearly not sustainable because it will just result in an explosion in their numbers, without a clear plan to provide food for them long-term.

I'm asserting it because it's true. I'm vegan for over 7 years now, the only supplements I take is B12 (and occasionally D), I'm in good health. I'm friends with a vegan of 20 years, the only supplements she takes is B12 and iron, and she's in good health. The science backs it up as well, plants contain almost everything we need to exist.

In order to be healthy, you have to make sure your diet is varied and contains the sources for all necessary nutrients, but then it's exactly the same for omnivores.

No, it isn't. Nobody in their right mind claim that any country has achieved communism. For now it is just a utopic idea of how humanity could exist post-capitalism.

What has been achieved by some countries to varying degrees is socialism (worker ownership on the means of production via a centralised economy).

Yeah, I guess I'm not entirely accurate, because you can get some tiny amount of B12 from plant-based sources (e.g. nori). But it's probably not enough, so vegans should supplement it. The rest is probably fine unless you're blasting junk food every day.

Yeah, and yet westerners blasted with anti-communism propaganda 24/7 seem to believe that communism is something which it isn't. Shocking, I know.

Yes it is. Everything except B12 can either be found in some plant-based foods, or produced by your body. B12 is the only supplement you need.

I do care about the planet actually surviving this. We've created way too many animals, the natural ecosystems won't be able to sustain them all if we release them into the wild and let them reproduce. The outcome will be devastated ecosystems and a lot of animals dying due to starvation. Sterilization is the least inhumane way out of this mess.

USSR and all so-called communist states

Nobody in their right mind would claim USSR had achieved communism. It did achieve socialism to some extent.

USSR was ruled by a communist party, i.e. a party striving to achieve communism. Lenin postulated that in order to achieve communism (stateless, classless, moneyless society), first one has to achieve world-wide socialism (worker ownership on means of production via a state-managed centralized economy), and then transition by withering away the state. Stalin reduced the ambition to just "socialism in a single country", with the goal of eventually achieving communism at some later date. This was the prevalent ideology of CPSU until the dissolution.

underdeveloped countries where “productive forces” were at a very low level

Based on what? USSR had many great technical achievements, and the industrial base was pretty good at the time too. Planned economy tended to not focus on consumer stuff (which was a mistake in some ways), but industrial&military production was on par with the west if not better.

Communism definitionally does not have a government.

Hehe, actually, my main jacket does have pockets big enough to barely fit my X201s. Practical clothes are a thing!