[Yaelle]

In 2001, British vegans Hazmik and Garabet Manuelyan, from Staines, were sentenced to three years’ community rehabilitation after they admitted starving daughter Arenai, 10 months, to death. She had been fed nothing but breast milk, raw fruit, vegetables and nuts.

Sum ting wong here. Most babies at 10 months are only fed breast milk with a few fruits and veggies introduced. That is not starving a child. There must be a little more to that story.

[Crystal Cove]

I don’t get it either. Don’t most babies take breast milk for at least the first year, and isn’t most baby just raw fruits and vegetables that have been pureed, with maybe a little water added? I don’t think babies under a year usually eat nuts because of allergies, but otherwise I don’t see the problem. What should the baby have been fed?