Are vegans allowed to drink breast milk?!
And do vegan mothers usually let theyre children drink from them!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
Yes!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Breast milk is meant for the offspring of the lactating mother!. There isn't a sane vegan in the world that would oppose a mother breastfeeding her own child!.
This is normal, as opposed to herding lactating mothers and forcing them to produce humongous amounts of milk; then selling it and slaughtering them as soon as they age and their production level is down, and throughout their ordeal repeatedly impregnating them to maintain hormone levels and guarantee lactation, and then keeping their daughters for milk or for feed lots, and usually choosing veal crates, starvation diets and death in infancy for male sons!.
Because that's what we do to cows!.
Vegans oppose exploiting animals!.
It is not exploitation to breastfeed your own child; you consent to it, you have a choice to use formula!. You can also donate your breast milk to milk banks for mothers of preemies or mothers who otherwise can't breastfeed!. It's also not a problem to have an animal of one species take in another species and breastfeed it to help it pull through infancy, in the case of it's birth mother dying!. It's the difference of consent, a difference of one being compassionate and normal, the other being exploitative and cruel!.
Obama's Shoes: There are, curiously, far more incidents of meat-eating parents molesting, abusing and starving their children, and yet their diet is not seen as the culprit (yes, even adjusting for the fact there are far more non-vegans than vegans worldwide)!.
Vegan parents who refuse to feed their children a nutritionally adequate diet might use their diet as an excuse, but it's a poor one, the issue at hand is child abuse and neglect!. Someone that is insanely religious might claim their faith made it alright to beat his wife senseless for having a daughter, or to commit infanticide over honor, but we also don't blame the faith but rather the person's own delusional interpretation of what it means to be a certain faith, or eat a certain diet!. Vegans are predominantly hippie-ish natural childbirth, breast-feed as long as you can types!.
It's nonsense to claim breastfeeding is off the table for vegans and shows an inability to argue effectively against veganism, it is instead stooping to sensationalism, false statements and generalizations!. It's easier than learning a darn thing about the other side, I guess!.
also, a balanced vegan diet actually offers nutritionally superior breast milk, when compared to the standard diet most women in this country eat!. Most mothers nowadays are overweight or obese, and most eat far too many calories and processed foods, and resort to fortified, empty-value foods rather than actual sources of nutrition, like fresh fruit and veggies or whole grains!.
While vitamin B12 can be an issue, vitamin drops are encouraged, and fortified rice cereals are encouraged, for nearly all mothers - vegan or not!. The fact of the matter is, MOST mothers, period, don't eat a sensible and balanced diet!. Vegan mothers are not exempt, but on average have better fat, vitamin and mineral content, and they have reduced transfer from their blood stream to their breast milk of chemical additives (like pesticides, animal hormones, antibiotics)!. If you take vegan mothers and find one or two things that tend to be lacking in their milk, and then only nitpick into non-vegan mother's milk for those nutrients, the other milk might seem superior!. However, the sheer quality and quantity of just about every other essential nutrient, the calorie and fat content and any chemicals transferred are not in the equation!. In a broad-spectrum comparison, vegan milk is usually equivalent or superior!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
This is normal, as opposed to herding lactating mothers and forcing them to produce humongous amounts of milk; then selling it and slaughtering them as soon as they age and their production level is down, and throughout their ordeal repeatedly impregnating them to maintain hormone levels and guarantee lactation, and then keeping their daughters for milk or for feed lots, and usually choosing veal crates, starvation diets and death in infancy for male sons!.
Because that's what we do to cows!.
Vegans oppose exploiting animals!.
It is not exploitation to breastfeed your own child; you consent to it, you have a choice to use formula!. You can also donate your breast milk to milk banks for mothers of preemies or mothers who otherwise can't breastfeed!. It's also not a problem to have an animal of one species take in another species and breastfeed it to help it pull through infancy, in the case of it's birth mother dying!. It's the difference of consent, a difference of one being compassionate and normal, the other being exploitative and cruel!.
Obama's Shoes: There are, curiously, far more incidents of meat-eating parents molesting, abusing and starving their children, and yet their diet is not seen as the culprit (yes, even adjusting for the fact there are far more non-vegans than vegans worldwide)!.
Vegan parents who refuse to feed their children a nutritionally adequate diet might use their diet as an excuse, but it's a poor one, the issue at hand is child abuse and neglect!. Someone that is insanely religious might claim their faith made it alright to beat his wife senseless for having a daughter, or to commit infanticide over honor, but we also don't blame the faith but rather the person's own delusional interpretation of what it means to be a certain faith, or eat a certain diet!. Vegans are predominantly hippie-ish natural childbirth, breast-feed as long as you can types!.
It's nonsense to claim breastfeeding is off the table for vegans and shows an inability to argue effectively against veganism, it is instead stooping to sensationalism, false statements and generalizations!. It's easier than learning a darn thing about the other side, I guess!.
also, a balanced vegan diet actually offers nutritionally superior breast milk, when compared to the standard diet most women in this country eat!. Most mothers nowadays are overweight or obese, and most eat far too many calories and processed foods, and resort to fortified, empty-value foods rather than actual sources of nutrition, like fresh fruit and veggies or whole grains!.
While vitamin B12 can be an issue, vitamin drops are encouraged, and fortified rice cereals are encouraged, for nearly all mothers - vegan or not!. The fact of the matter is, MOST mothers, period, don't eat a sensible and balanced diet!. Vegan mothers are not exempt, but on average have better fat, vitamin and mineral content, and they have reduced transfer from their blood stream to their breast milk of chemical additives (like pesticides, animal hormones, antibiotics)!. If you take vegan mothers and find one or two things that tend to be lacking in their milk, and then only nitpick into non-vegan mother's milk for those nutrients, the other milk might seem superior!. However, the sheer quality and quantity of just about every other essential nutrient, the calorie and fat content and any chemicals transferred are not in the equation!. In a broad-spectrum comparison, vegan milk is usually equivalent or superior!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Few adults, vegan or otherwise, drink human breast milk, though non-vegans drink the breast milk of other species!.
Of course vegan mothers breastfeed their babies!. Vegans avoid dairy products because of the exploitation and suffering involved in the dairy industry and because cows' milk is intended for their young, not for humans!.
There is no exploitation involved in a mother breastfeeding her baby!. And as breast milk is the ideal food for babies, vegan mothers would want their babies to have this healthy food!. The only vegan mother I know who didn't breastfeed was unable to, to her regret
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''there are some vegans who are unable or unwilling to nurse and do not feed their babies nutritionally adequate food!.'' Exactly the same is true of non-vegans for goodness sake!.
''About four vegan babies have died in the last five years!. In one case, a Georgia couple was given life in prison when their baby died at about half of its normal body weight!.'' This was a case of ignorance, neglect and bad parenting, none of which are exclusive to vegans!. There are many cases of children starving to death from neglect where the parents' diet is not mentioned in the press - they can't all be vegansWww@FoodAQ@Com
Of course vegan mothers breastfeed their babies!. Vegans avoid dairy products because of the exploitation and suffering involved in the dairy industry and because cows' milk is intended for their young, not for humans!.
There is no exploitation involved in a mother breastfeeding her baby!. And as breast milk is the ideal food for babies, vegan mothers would want their babies to have this healthy food!. The only vegan mother I know who didn't breastfeed was unable to, to her regret
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''there are some vegans who are unable or unwilling to nurse and do not feed their babies nutritionally adequate food!.'' Exactly the same is true of non-vegans for goodness sake!.
''About four vegan babies have died in the last five years!. In one case, a Georgia couple was given life in prison when their baby died at about half of its normal body weight!.'' This was a case of ignorance, neglect and bad parenting, none of which are exclusive to vegans!. There are many cases of children starving to death from neglect where the parents' diet is not mentioned in the press - they can't all be vegansWww@FoodAQ@Com
Vegan babies drink human breast milk!. The way you worded the question it sounds like you're asking about adults!. I suppose an adult vegan could drink breast milk without it going against their ethical position (since human breast milk is made for humans)!. But, it is not socially acceptable for adults to drink breast milk, so you'd probably be hard-pressed to find someone who does!.
While humans are animals too (as you pointed out); no other animal (other than yourself) is being exploited for its milk!. If you are breast feeding your child, the milk you produce is made for your baby!. A cow's milk is not made for a human to drink (it's made for a calf)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
While humans are animals too (as you pointed out); no other animal (other than yourself) is being exploited for its milk!. If you are breast feeding your child, the milk you produce is made for your baby!. A cow's milk is not made for a human to drink (it's made for a calf)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
m suppose but only if their mothers let them!.
The only people who drink breast milk are infants so of course they would be "allowed" to drink and can only drink what their vegan mothers feed them!. They can't really choose can they!?
If an adult vegan want to drink milk, who is there to say "sorry but not allowed" or arrest him/her if he/she does!? There is no vegan "law" enforcement agency in existenceWww@FoodAQ@Com
The only people who drink breast milk are infants so of course they would be "allowed" to drink and can only drink what their vegan mothers feed them!. They can't really choose can they!?
If an adult vegan want to drink milk, who is there to say "sorry but not allowed" or arrest him/her if he/she does!? There is no vegan "law" enforcement agency in existenceWww@FoodAQ@Com
Yes although there are some vegans who are unable or unwilling to nurse and do not feed their babies nutritionally adequate food!. About four vegan babies have died in the last five years!. In one case, a Georgia couple was given life in prison when their baby died at about half of its normal body weight!.
Vegan breast milk is also lacking certain nutrients:
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http://www!.nytimes!.com/2007/05/21/opinio!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Vegan breast milk is also lacking certain nutrients:
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http://www!.nytimes!.com/2007/05/21/opinio!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I agree that humans are animals too, but vegans choose not to drink other animals milk because it's not natural- it's meant for their offspring, not us!. Therefore I think it's completely fine for a mother to breastfeed!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Vegans are allowed to do anything everyone else is alloed to do!. We choose not to!.
I strongly encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies!.
Understand that the central point in my boycotting dairy milk is that it is the mothers milk to feed to her young!. Humans are no different!.
Even now, I wouldn't have any strong objections to drinking human milk because at least I would know that the mother has chosen to share it!. Of course I would need to know that the womans child was fed enough first!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I strongly encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies!.
Understand that the central point in my boycotting dairy milk is that it is the mothers milk to feed to her young!. Humans are no different!.
Even now, I wouldn't have any strong objections to drinking human milk because at least I would know that the mother has chosen to share it!. Of course I would need to know that the womans child was fed enough first!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Breast milk is vegan!. Human women are not kept in cages and artificially inseminated so that they are always pregnant or lactating!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Babies do of course!. Breast milk is the ONLY healthy thing for an infant to consume!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes they are allowed!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
silly question
vegans exclude themselves from animal exploitation!.
What is difficult about that to understand !?
human mothers breast-feeding human babies has no connection with veganism
I don't beleive anyone in the world would ask this as a genuine question!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
vegans exclude themselves from animal exploitation!.
What is difficult about that to understand !?
human mothers breast-feeding human babies has no connection with veganism
I don't beleive anyone in the world would ask this as a genuine question!.Www@FoodAQ@Com