Is it unhealthy to provide a vegan diet to a baby?!
Is it unhealthy to provide a vegan diet to a baby?
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1 month ago
Well, explain the Atlanta couple who got sentenced to life for providing a vegan diet to their baby who died?
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1 month ago
Well, explain the Atlanta couple who got sentenced to life for providing a vegan diet to their baby who died?
As lots of other people have already pointed out there isn't a single thing wrong with raising kids veg if you aren't a moron.
Try doing web-searches on "starved baby +vegan" and "starved baby -vegan" and look at the different amounts of hits you get! With the first search I get over 1,400,000 hits, on the second I only get 56,000. By adding "-atlanta" to the "+vegan" search the number drops to 38,000 and most of those hits are STILL about this ONE idiotic couple.
Please note that EVERY single new article about this case is based on two reports filed by ONE AP reporter named Greg Bluestein. Even all the Atlanta media outlets are using his reports as the basis of their stories. That's very odd considering the large amount of hype this case is getting!
In any event based on the SLIM amount of information we have, it appears that this is a "Twinkie Defense" case (look it up)!
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Vegetarians do not eat fish. A fish eater is a Piscivore. Spread the correct word!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piscivo...
Yes! Babies need a full balanced diet, you are depriving them of vital nutrients.
Absolutely not.
First, babies should be nursed for at least 6 months, preferably much longer. Yes, that's vegan.
Nutrition for vegan babies simply takes the same amount of care as it does for vegan adults. And it's not only healthy, but much healthier than any other type of diet. Check the sources below for complete information.
A baby's diet should mainly consist of mother's milk which is definitely not vegan.
Well, breast milk isn't vegan, is it?
i heard in the news a few days ago that a baby died from malnutrition because its parents fed it a vegan diet. they were sentenced to prison.
Yes - I read in the news yesterday that a baby died from malnutrition because the parents were only feeding it soy milk and apple juice.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,5149...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/...
my baby had soy formula (vegan) for the first six months of her life. and if i wanted to continue it, i could have.
there's plenty of soy-based baby formula and baby products, especially for babies prone to colic or allergies.
you dont have to say much about this couple but they are totally insane and a hot mess how do you even put a damn near pre mature baby on a diet
I would say so. Also, vegans shouldnt raise their babies or young children to not eat meat. They are their own people and they should be able to decide when they are old enough whether thats the lifestyle they want to live. I personally love meat. And I would be pissed if my parents wouldnt let me eat it because they have different eating habits. I think its wrong. Children should decide on their own if they want to be vegan. Plus their little growing bodies need all the nutrients they can get from a variety of sources - all of the food groups.
Okay first of all to all you stupid people that think breastmilk is not vegan, as long as the mom is vegan then yes the milk is then vegan. In addition to the pain cows have to go through in order to provide their calf's milk to humans, vegans also believe that cow's milk is made for cows as goat's milk is made for goats, cat's milk is made cats and human's milk is made for humans.... As God (or whatever you believe in) so perfectly planned it to work out so that each species' milk provided the perfect nutrients to it's own spawn and not that of another being. And with that, the child was being fed supplementation for breastmilk that should not have been given to any child under the age of one in place of breatmilk or formula. Not to mention the fact that I don't know ANY 6 week old eating meat, so what does being vegan have to do with this child's lack of nourishment?
Are you people insane?????? Breast milk isnt vegan? HUMAN breast milk? Of course its vegan, it comes from a females breast to feed her HUMAN baby, just like cows milk which is there to feed her CALF.
6-week-olds don't eat meat or anything other than their mothers' milk, you idiots.
What's all the fuss about them being vegans?
I think the prosecuter said it best here:
“No matter how many times they want to say, ‘We’re vegans, we’re vegetarians,’ that’s not the issue in this case,” said prosecutor Chuck Boring. “The child died because he was not fed. Period.”
It is not about a vegan diet, as they are healthy as an diet done properly. This is a pair of parents that neglected their child and then tried to find a scapegoat.
No baby should be on a diet of soy milk, or even regular milk for that matter. There are soy based formula's that are nutritious for growing babies. They are fortified with vitamin,minerals, iron, etc, just like regular baby formula. Brest milk is best for babies and if possible a infant should be getting breast milk.
Vegan parents do not put animals ahead of thier babies they choose to raise thier children free from the pestisides, hormones, etc found in meat. There is no difference between parents raising thier children vegan and parents that choose to raise thier children to eat meat. Either way you are forcing your child to consume what you do.
Just because eating meat is considered the norm, doesn't mean it is the right or even healthy. Childhood obesity is on the rise, and one of the major contributers is fast food. Eating at McDonalds seems to be the norm now adays, does that make it the right way to eat.
There are plentyy of vegan parents that are raising healthy vegan children. On the flip side there are plent of neglectful meat eating parents out there as well. Parenting has nothing to do with diet. These parent(if they can even be called that) were neglectful and more was going on than poor diet. Malnutrition does not just happen, it is slow. They were aware and chose not to seek professional help and advice.
a young infant as this one was needs nothing more than Breast Milk(Vegan) or Proper Baby (Vegan or Dairy based)Formula.
Did these people bother to read 1 single book on baby care? In this day & age where we have information on every subject imaginable at our finger tips, there is NO REASON for not knowing something as simple as what to feed there baby..Hell they would have done better with a puppy.
All babies are supposed to be vegan. Even babies of meat eating animals only consume their mother's milk.
That "Atlanta couple" is being blown out of proportion by the media. They were not doing things correctly and basically abusing their kids (and themselves). Many many many meat eaters also abuse their kids, physiclly, mentally, and so forth. This "Atlanta couple" just happened to be vegan, that is all.
I agree with the other answers, that babies should only be fed breast milk and nothing else for at least 8 months, and continue to breast feed long after starting to eat solid foods for another year or more [traditionally for many years]. I would not feed my baby formula as that stuff is very lacking in not only nutrients, but it's a cooked non-living product that only contains the very very very basic ingredients to keep a baby alive. Breast milk is alive and reactive to the baby's needs. It will supply with antibiotics, enzymes, and all the baby needs. If a mother cannot breastfeed (had her breasts chopped off, or was killed in a car accident) that's what a wet-nurse if for, and La Leche League.
I see those formula babies and chat with their parents at the park. Their kids look stoned and unaware. Ours are smiling, laughing, looking around, trying to grab stuff... very active. The other parents say such things as "Wow, your baby is so active, we didn't get any reaction or recognition from our baby for 3 months." Then they stop feeding them formula as soon as possible then start shoving 'babyfood' into them and giving them snacks of cookies, popcicles, .... crazy stuff... I see those same kids at the local playground over the period of years and they are all slow -- slow in the mind, uncoordinated, moody, broody, temper tantrums, etc. The healthy breastfed kids (with healthy mothers) are climbing up the difficult curved ladder at one year old while the essentially junk food kids are still having trouble at three years old. The difference is very obvious when hanging around these children from when they were born and seeing them develop over the next few years.
Think about this: "Chimpanzees have a lifespan of about 50 years. They give birth from around 12 or 13, and breastfeed until the baby is about 5 or so." May 4, 2007; Mainichi Daily News So... humans live to...?
It was not because they were vegan, it was because of malnutrition (lack of proper diet). That bab could have been fine if fed breastmilk.
I think yes.
Those parents didn't provide a vegan diet, they provided NO diet. They only claimed they fed the child soy milk and juice, when in fact they didn't feed it anything toward the end. And get your facts straight... are you saying you would feed a big greasy pork chop to a six week old baby? They used veganism as a weak defense and excuse for starving their child to death. And are we really expected to believe it was an innocent accident? Those people knew their baby was dying, and did nothing to help it. They could have simply walked to the hospital that was right across the street from their apartment building. So what about all those meat-eaters out there who kill their children??? I guess I can start using that as an excuse to demonize all meat-eaters, huh?