Yes, apologies if my wording was imprecise or even insensitive. By "poor" I'm really referring to subsistence farming and people in subsistence farms relying on meat from animals who roam on degraded soil, so they have little B12 because the soil has little cobalt. My point is that it is not veganism itself that is to blame for poor people's inability to obtain B12 but rather it is, unfortunately, their poverty.
When people eat animal products, they tend to eat the nutrients that the animal eats, so e.g. if someone eats a cow that has eaten cobalt, then they will eat that cobalt. One benefit of animals is that they concentrate or mix various chemicals so e.g. if humans themselves consume the cobalt from the ground, they probably won't get much. The same applies to e.g. omega 3. Many eat fish or take fish oil supplements to get omega 3, but fish get it from algae. However, for someone who is poor, it may be easier for them to go fishing and catch a fish rather than dive to the bottom of the ocean to get the algae. For someone who has a lack of wealth to be able to get to the bottom of the ocean to get the algae, that would be hard. This is what I meant when I said, "something we need to consider is that a lack of wealth of power puts you at the mercy of the conditions you are born into, and this is not something unique to vegans."
But yes upon rereading what I said, it can be interpreted as an insensitive statement suggesting that poor people need to consider something. But I'm trying to say that it is the inequality that is the issue here and we need to consider that it is the inequality that is the problem, not necessarily veganism, and because of environmental degradation, eating animals to obtain nutrients is starting to become an ineffective strategy eg the soils are lacking in cobalt plus soils have lots of other pollutants such as e.g. mercury, and the same applies to the oceans e.g. fish consume not just algae (and get EPA and DHA) but also e.g. cadmium and other heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, etc, so there is a benefit to getting the nutrient direct from the source.
