Death by Veganism

[LaWood]

Perhaps this belongs under "Religion" because I've enountered a few 'fruititarians' and some vegans who base their practices upon beliefs. However the analysis is somewhat scientific. I once encountered a 30ish woman who appeared knowledgeable about food stuffs at a local health food store. Then she proceeded to tell me that spinach provided all the protein one needed. I reminded her fresh spinach is primarily water, then cellulose and sugars.


Death by Veganism
By NINA PLANCK NYT
Published: May 21, 2007

WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty.

This particular calamity — at least the third such conviction of vegan parents in four years — may be largely due to ignorance. But it should prompt frank discussion about nutrition.

I was once a vegan. But well before I became pregnant, I concluded that a vegan pregnancy was irresponsible. You cannot create and nourish a robust baby merely on foods from plants

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/opini ... ref=slogin

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

It's totally ignorance of nutrition. Human beings are mammals - if the mother, for whatever reason, cannot produce the milk for the baby, then the infant should be fed milk from some other mammal (goat is one of the best). Things that adults can get away with will kill babies. You can't build a system on what you can sustain one on. I'll buy the cruelty along with the ignorance - how anyone could listen to a newborn crying while it was strong enough and then whimpering until it no longer had the strength to even do that...