I owned an art studio where families came to have fun. There was this one couple who came with their young child, probably two years old. The couple were Vegans, spoke about it constantly and how great it was. The poor child was so sickly looking. And she did have a rash on her face all the time which they told me was allergies. 15 years ago and I still think about it.
Is there a law that requires a parent to feed their child meat?
I am surprised that the James Brown look alike in the Whitehouse did not impose it on the public schools.
I dunno. Where do we draw the line? Are the Moms that only feed their kids Doritos, Mac-n-Cheese, Mountain Dew and NO fruits and nuts having THEIR children taken away from them?
Granted, no one wants to see children hurt due to stupidity like either of these examples, but again, where do you draw the line?
I hope THIS kid can recover some brain cells before it’s too late; babies NEED a TON of fat for good brain development.
Babies need fat and cholesterol, their joints and brains especially. I work with a young woman who is a third generation vegetarian. She’s a tiny little thing-cute but with horrible skin. I keep thinking that never having animal protein might have something to do with it. For as much effort as she puts into research and planning her diet you would think that at 20 she would radiate vibrant health. She doesn’t. She is stiff and pretty low energy.
The mom in this article has bought into a false idea that will cause (or has done ) irreversible brain damage to her baby.
Was this mom human, or simian?
A lot of sugar in fruit and nuts, she’s setting up her kid to get fat, and probably give them diabetes.
If the old adage, 'you are what you eat' is true, this kid will likely end up living in San Fran when he grows up.
Back in the late 1990’s, I adopted the vegan lifestyle for 2 weeks. I became weak and was trembling within the first week. I kept losing my balance and had trouble concentrating and was unable to vocalize my thoughts clearly. I told my father and he told me to eat salmon. I got some for dinner that night and it was just like when the scarecrow was given his brain in The Wizard of Oz - my brain needed fats it was not getting from fruits and nuts.
Shame on this mother.
Vegans are “nuts”!.
Couldn’t the woman at least nurse her child? That might get her the needed fats and proteins.
But maybe not. My sister tried to be a vegetarian but had to give it up when she got pregnant. She had to eat meat to lactate decently.
I am surprised a Vegan could even carry a child to term.
The story didn’t say whether she was nursing the poor thing. 11 months is not too old for him to still be nursing and in fact getting a lot of his nourishment that way although if mom is undernourished her milk probably dried up. I saw a family like this at the local Whole Foods Mart a few years ago. The children looked very undernourished. All the food that they were buying was vegan. Sad. They almost found that my first born had failure to thrive at one year at about 18 pounds although he had not only breast milk but lots of other yummies and we were not vegetarian or vegan. I did make a lot of his baby food though. The next one was such a strong nurser and ate so much that he was 30 pounds at one year.
If she had breast fed the child until he was three, he could probably do well on a properly balanced vegan diet. She would have to know what one was, and follow it herself, in order to provide enough milk.
Nuts for a child under the age of one could be risky, and ascribing a rash to allergies without addressing the allergies is idiotic - “it’s okay, it’s a vegan rash.”
Vegans are nuts. By their own stupid philosophy they shouldn’t eat anything.
As well she should be.
The mom was a fruit and nut.
PLANT LIVES MATTER!
This might answer any number of questions.
Leni
Don’t laugh! We have Seventh day Adventists near here who want to live like that! Many will not touch a piece of beef or chicken! One woman threw a fit when her husband brought in quail for the kids.