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Couple Gets Life For Starving Baby, They Blame Vegan Diet

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DaveQB DaveQB NSW Posts: 287
1 14 Sep 2011
http://jezebel.com/5840037/couple-gets-life-for-starving-baby-they-blame-vegan-diet

Trying to use the vegan diet as a way out of their sentence. Please!
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TheSixthStitch TheSixthStitch Aruba Posts: 988
2 14 Sep 2011
So stupid and preventable. Poor bub sad
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Catyren Catyren WA Posts: 542
3 14 Sep 2011
they fed the baby nothing but soy milk and apple juice... what did they think was going to happen to the kid? if they had fed the child nothing but dairy milk and apple juice the same thing would have happened!
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Supercalifragilisticexpiali... Supercalifragilisticexpiali... QLD Posts: 199
4 14 Sep 2011
Catyren said:
they fed the baby nothing but soy milk and apple juice... what did they think was going to happen to the kid? if they had fed the child nothing but dairy milk and apple juice the same thing would have happened!
Exactly. These stories never really have anything to do with veganism and everything to do with neglectful and/or ignorant parents (though I should add that my 36 yr old friend was apparently raised on condensed milk and around the same time many babies were fed evaporated milk and "survived"). But anyway you never read "omnivore parents starve child to death".

Very sad.
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Mean people wear fur Mean people wear fur QLD Posts: 1087
5 15 Sep 2011
I hate how Veganism gets blamed for this. Just because the parents were ignorant and starved the poor baby doesn't mean that Veganism was the cause.
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DaveQB DaveQB NSW Posts: 287
6 15 Sep 2011
The verdict and the article both say that a Vegan diet was not the cause.

From the article:
"Even if Sanders and Thomas didn't know what to feed Crown, they should have sought medical attention before he got down to under four pounds. Highlighting the couple's dietary preferences unfairly suggests that all vegan parents may be putting their families in danger."
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