Stop being Vegan, walaalkay.
1) It’s not good for your health long-term:
It’s not just B12. You also cannot get adequate Omega-3s (EPA and DHA), or the bioactive forms of vitamins that the body actually absorbs and uses: Vitamin A (retinol), Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2 (MK-4), and Vitamin B6 (P5P), along with things like creatine, taurine, and carnitine that are virtually absent in plants. Those last three are not considered "essential" but, believe me,
they make a difference. The fats are also skewed in the wrong direction, with too many unstable PUFAs compared to more stable SFAs and MUFAs, making inflammation more likely over time. Then there are the antinutrients: for example,
80-
90% of the calcium in calcium-rich plants isn’t absorbable because of oxalates, and the iron is the less useful “elemental” form instead of heme-iron, which humans ideally absorb.
Even plant proteins are far less bioavailable compared to animal proteins.
If you’re coming off a typical modern processed diet (SAD-type) or even the modern Somali diet, and you quit smoking or other bad habits at the same time, you may feel better,
sometimes even great, for the first 1–2 years as a kind of
semi-detox. But long-term, the nutrient deficiencies,
fiber overload, antinutrients, excess carbs, and imbalanced fats inevitably catch up. This is why the vast majority of vegans eventually quit: health problems.
To be honest, the only way to sustainably-ish do veganism long-term is to do a processed food vegan diet (seed oils, carby foods, mock animal foods etc) and those will long-term give you the same morbidities as living on a modern processed diet (excess fat gain->metabolic dysfunction->t2 diabetes etc), just now spiced with nutrient deficiencies.
2) It is not actually great for the environment:
You’re essentially clearing entire biodiverse ecosystems, wiping out all the plants and animals that once lived there, in order to sustain vast monocrop fields. These monocultures are ecologically fragile, deplete soils, and require heavy chemical input. On top of that, there’s the global transport network and labor exploitation behind maintaining the unrealistic year-round diversity of plant foods that modern diets demand, with produce shipped in from every corner of the world.
And contrary to the popular narrative,
this kind of agriculture still kills animals on a massive scale. Snakes, rodents, insects, birds, and countless other creatures are poisoned, crushed, or shredded by machinery—hundreds to thousands per acre per year. The “bloodless” idea of plant-based food doesn’t hold up when you factor in the collateral death built into the system.
Even the
carbon-
footprint argument is often misrepresented. Agriculture as a whole,
plant and animal combined, accounts for less than 10% of global emissions. The lion’s share comes from heavy industry, energy production, and large-scale manufacturing. Much of the environmental blame shifted onto farmers and ranchers is really just corporate misdirection to take attention away from industries with far bigger impacts.
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Bottomline, if you truly care about your health and the environment, walaalkay, the most powerful step is to work toward owning your own homestead (raising your own chickens, goats, sheep, or cattle etc) and producing enough surplus to support your local rural community. By practicing regenerative methods like rotational grazing, crop rotation, and composting, you can restore and enrich the local topsoil while providing real, nutrient-dense food to others.
In the meantime, the best choice is to support your local farmers, both livestock and crop producers, whom you can see are stewarding the land responsibly after you've done your research on them. And if you can afford it, minimize or avoid industrial agriculture products altogether. That way you invest in healthier food, stronger communities, and ecosystems that can sustain future generations and are not a slave to Monsanto or whatever.
I'll leave it at that. I have no real interest in a back and forth about veganism. Just thought I'd throw in my two cents for my fellow Somali and brother in Leftism and Dar el-Islam.
it is the way of the one who has sharaf i am above the animal 
hiindi does put the animal above them this is why they are flawe they go against the natural order They are queer
you know better than to walk in with this buuq
I feel locked out and culturally abandoned. I'm sitting at home and it's just canjeero and black tea, I go to a restaurant and the waiter asks if I want suqaar, dheylo or calooley with a side of beer gheel. I ask for anything excluding meat, they either kick me out or offer some plain canjeero, great more canjeero, I say "what do I eat with this canjeero?" and they bring out my worst nightmare. The white soup from boiled meat
