From the Florida Sun-Sentinal comes this story of vegetarianism gone horribly wrong:
Parents charged with starving baby to death are expecting another child
The parents of a 5-month-old girl who authorities say died in 2003 of malnutrition caused by a strict vegan diet are expecting another child within three months, their attorney said Wednesday.
Attorney Ellis Rubin said the mother, Lamoy Andressohn, has been receiving care from a medical doctor while continuing to stick to her diet.
Rubin said he advised Andressohn and her husband, Joseph, to seek the medical guidance to avoid any "further grief" from officials. The parents recently learned that the child will be a girl, and have already named her Joyah.
No shit sherlock!
The condition of the first child:
The Andressohns are charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. The infant, Woyah, weighed 7 pounds when she died May 15, 2003, about 6 pounds less than she should have at 6 months of age, an autopsy concluded. Any other kids?
A judge has set a hearing for next week to determine whether the parents can visit their four other children, ages 3 to 8, who remain in foster care.
And the diet:
The Andressohns had Woyah and her siblings on a strict raw food diet that consisted primarily of almond milk and uncooked fruits and vegetables, consistent with the dietary guidelines of their Hebrew Israelite religion.
Moonbattery gone horribly horribly wrong. I don't care if you have eating practices that you would like to follow, don't subject a growing infant to your lunacy and bad choice. Babies have different dietary needs than humans and they have no reserves to fall back on when they fail to get proper nutrition. Their other children are probably suffering or going to suffer poor teeth, bad bones, weakness and a lessened mental acuity from this diet even through they managed to survive. Aggravated manslaughter is to nice for them. The judge should force them to get a degree in nutrition...
You have formulated an opinion using wrong information. You should see the pictures of those vibrant children. Their diet is abundant with food choices, all exceedingly higher in nutrition than the regular American diet. They don't cook their food. This preserves the nutrients. Their baby who died had no thymus gland, which is necessary in any human for survival. The baby did not die of starvation. The baby died of not having a thymus. Look it up. DeGeorge (DiGeorge?) Syndrome is always fatal, and most babies who have it die within a couple weeks after birth. The Andressohns were able to nurture their child for five months before she succombed to this condition. Newspapers give a tiny bit of information, and some of it is often wrong.