As for your opening sentence on the health section, “you need to take medicine to not die—B12”, I don’t think a B12 supplement is medicine. Factory farmed animals are routinely fed B12 supplements and people don’t consider meat medicine. Salt is supplemented with iodine to prevent deficiencies, also not medicine.
I don’t really understand why you’re arguing this point in particular, but I don’t think you’re making a strong argument.
Factory farmed animals do take medicine all the time; this has no bearing on whether we consider the* food derived from those animals* to be medicine.
Additionally, food-as-medicine is indeed a growing school of thought (although industrial beef is not going to be a recommendation).
Lastly, taking a concentrated and packaged supplement to improve health is substantially different from eating a whole food which contains similar nutrients. It is an extremely common form of medicine: pills.
I don’t really understand why you’re arguing this point in particular, but I don’t think you’re making a strong argument.
Factory farmed animals do take medicine all the time; this has no bearing on whether we consider the* food derived from those animals* to be medicine.
Additionally, food-as-medicine is indeed a growing school of thought (although industrial beef is not going to be a recommendation).
Lastly, taking a concentrated and packaged supplement to improve health is substantially different from eating a whole food which contains similar nutrients. It is an extremely common form of medicine: pills.