tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10722927.post841386623386192978..comments2023-10-24T13:17:07.750+01:00Comments on World Vegetarian And Vegan News: French Vegan Parents Face 30 years in JailVegan Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586596858312941805noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10722927.post-62146267772097001952011-04-03T22:22:11.446+01:002011-04-03T22:22:11.446+01:00Because twisted for me the hypocrisy of the situat...Because twisted for me the hypocrisy of the situation where society tolerates the stupidity of smoking around kids with the worst intention but not the stupidity of treating a kid with cabbage and mud with the best intention.<br /><br />I think society should have a strategy to treat all parental stupidity equally.<br /><br />There is no question about breast milk, a complete vegan diet, or homeopathic medicine being unsuitable for children.<br /><br />The issue is watching your child slowly die and using DIY medicine when you are not trained.<br /><br /><i>When veganism is combined with a profound distrust of medicine, this is the result.</i><br /><br />Trevor, this would suggest there is some magic ingredient in meat or dairy that would have saved this child's life - Zinc? iron? B12? All these are in breast milk and much more in a healthy mother.<br /><br />What the child needed was antibiotics and some vitamin and mineral rich food. Her poor compromised digestive system would have likely struggled with meat anyway.<br /><br />It's the mention of vegan that is the red herring - being vegan doesn't stop you following professional medical advice.<br /><br /><i>"What are the effects of a vegan diet and homoeopathic upbringing on an infant?"</i><br /><br />Most health authorities including the American Dietetic Association have confirmed a <i>varied</i> vegan diet to be suitable for a healthy infant's development.<br /><br />Sceptics claim that homeopathic medicine, whilst more effective than placebo is just placebo so then it cannot harm a baby.<br /><br />No health professional alternative or otherwise would be working within the boundaries of their license, insurance or the law if they failed to insist a chronic condition was reported to a Doctor.<br /><br />The problem here was that the parents didn't consult any professional medical or otherwise - the apparently just read a few books on cabbages.Vegan Chefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17586596858312941805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10722927.post-1591078344428869262011-04-03T11:37:56.978+01:002011-04-03T11:37:56.978+01:00I was hoping this article would develop in a more ...I was hoping this article would develop in a more interesting direction. The headline has nothing to do with your conclusion and you've failed to explore the main issue here, which to me was "What are the effects of a vegan diet and homoeopathic upbringing on an infant?"<br />I'll come straight out and say that I eat meat, keep an open mind and am a parent to a child who also eats meat.<br />We all know smoking is dreadful for everyone's health and especially for pregnant mothers and parents full stop for that matter. Why then instead of examining the issues relevant to this blog have you decided to just point the finger elsewhere?Twisters Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108222091752219144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10722927.post-46804996206620730892011-03-30T16:04:02.318+01:002011-03-30T16:04:02.318+01:00The fact that fast foods and smoking are bad for k...The fact that fast foods and smoking are bad for kids, has nothing to do with this tragedy. I think it's shameful that the author of this blogpost would draw that kind of analogy. That's a red herring designed to distract people from the real issue: that a child died because of parents ill-founded 'faith' in alternative medicine. <br /><br />When veganism is combined with a profound distrust of medicine, this is the result.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930420250931792150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10722927.post-26269898576181701202011-03-30T13:21:23.671+01:002011-03-30T13:21:23.671+01:00There is much evidence of the harmful effects on c...There is much evidence of the harmful effects on children in ‘smoking’ households including respiratory disease, asthma attacks, cot deaths and middle ear infections. The Acheson report highlights the fact that while one third of children in the UK live with at least one adult smoker, among low-income families the figure is 57%. <br /><br />Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, low birth weight and stillbirth. In addition, IARC states that there is sufficient evidence that parental smoking (mother and father) during the preconception period and pregnancy increases risk of hepatoblastoma in offspring, and limited evidence that parental smoking increases risk of childhood leukaemia in offspring.<br /><br /><a href="http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/lung/smoking/#passive" rel="nofollow"> http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/lung/smoking/#passive </a>Vegan Chefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17586596858312941805noreply@blogger.com