Vegan breastfeeding has caused an 11-month-old baby to die and the parents are charged with neglect after an autopsy indicated the baby suffered from severe deficiencies in Vitamin B12 and Vitamin A. Both these nutrients are known to be critical to a child’s development and sorely lacking in a vegan diet. This is why doctors strongly advise against nursing mothers and growing children following a vegan diet (1).
Vegans have long been advised to take B12 supplements as long term veganism runs the huge risk of serious B12 deficiency as well as other nutrients only found in animal foods such as true Vitamin A. Â Beta carotene is not true vitamin AÂ nor does it easily convert to adequate amounts of Vitamin A in the body to sustain optimal health.
While charging the parents in this tragedy is questionable as it smacks of too much interference by government into private life, it does communicate a clear message to other vegans:Â abstinence from all animal foods is a danger to one’s health and most particularly, your baby!
It also sends a clear message that what a nursing Mother eats definitely DOES affect the quality of her breastmilk, particularly with vegan breastfeeding. Many breastfeeding advocates insist that breastmilk will include all a baby needs despite what the Mother eats, but clearly this is not the case.
Traditional cultures took great care to ensure that pregnant and breastfeeding mothers consumed ample amounts of animal foods rich in vitamins A, D, E, K2 and of course B12. These foods included grass-fed butter, pastured eggs, liver, seafood, and fish eggs. Notice that none – NOT ONE of these traditionally sacred foods is plant-based!
Incidentally, the 2017 vegan film What The Health was unable to cite a single successful vegan population group either. Why? Because there are none. Ever.
If you are pregnant and breastfeeding and would like to learn what foods will maximally support the health of your baby while nursing, please check this link for the complete listing of traditionally sacred foods for optimal fetal and baby development. These foods will also ensure the preservation of your own health during pregnancy and lactation which can easily deplete a Mother’s nutritional stores leaving her vulnerable to exhaustion.
Vegan Parents Convicted
The vegan breastfeeding mother and father whose baby died as described in this article were convicted by a French court to 5 years in prison due to the imbalanced vegan diet the mother ate which led to nutrient-poor breastmilk and a failure to thrive child who eventually fell ill from severe nutrient deficiency and died without the parents ever seeking proper medical attention (source).
For more information on how vegan breastfeeding and also a vegan diet devastate the health of children, read about how a 12-year-old vegan was diagnosed with the degenerating bones of an 80-year-old.  Dr. Faisal Ahmed MD, a pediatrician treating the child, said that the dangers of forcing children to follow a strict vegan diet need to be publicized.
Unfortunately, vegan parents don’t seem to be getting the message quickly enough. The latest case involves vegans who nearly starved their 5-month-old baby to death feeding him potato mash instead of the doctor advised organic formula.
The child, who weighed just over 8 pounds and had sunken eyes and protruding ribs, is recovering but will likely suffer long-term damage from the experience (source).
References
Angelina Jolie says veganism nearly killed her
Supersize Me Girlfriend Quits VeganismÂ
Vitamin A Vagary
Vitamin B12: Vital Nutrient for Good Health
French vegan couple whose baby died of vitamin deficiency after being fed solely on breast milk face jail for child neglect
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Are you aware of the fact that Weston A Price actually advocated a vegetarian diet? http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/reflections-on-the-weston-a-price-foundation.html Not to mention, a properly planned vegan diet can and does provide for the necessary nutrients, even b12 and Vitamin A. A diet of french fries, oreos, coffee, and beans is a vegan diet, however it is not a healthy one and will leave you deficient in a multitude of vitamins and minerals. A properly planned vegan diet provides all that is necessary, of course if breastfeeding or pregnant one needs to be aware of the signs and symptoms of these deficiencies and if they present themselves most certainly the mother should allow herself without guilt to consume animal products. I was a breastfeeding vegan for 18 months, my son is extremely healthy and well nourished. I have recently become pregnant and found that my body required animal products. I will return to my vegan diet after birth, and do so without any qualms about the potential health of my child.
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I did a quick internet search and there are shocking numbers of babies who died due to malnourishment. I can hardly believe it. While a good number of the articles are related to this particular case of a vegan mother, most of the others are non-vegan breastfeeding moms or non-breastfeeding moms. It doesn’t sound to me like there is a strong case for the veganism being to blame.
There’s actually a great deal of research that supports reduced animal products in our “traditional American Diet.” It may not be for everyone, but there is an increasing amount of evidence that animal products are associated with higher levels of cancer, heart disease, metabolic disorders, and our nation’s growing problem with obesity. Veganism may be controversial, but the issues with our overconsumption of animal fats is hardly equivocal.
Here are some sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/19/heart.attack.proof.diet/index.html
Veganism is not controversial. The Vegans are the ones who create controversy because without controversy they would simply fade away, like fluatance . Besides, there is not one, I repeat NOT ONE speck of evidence that Veganism is any better for you than eating a balanced omnivore diet but there are dump trucks full of evidence that Vegans are less healthy. All the Vegans have provided in the way of proof are slicked up left wing web sights all of whom are either begging for money or sight each other’s supposed research, some also have a particular political axe to grind with some segment of the population. That is not proof, it however is proof that there is no proof to support the Vegan lifestyle..
Hi Keith, I beg to differ about the lack of evidence regarding the recommendations to reduce animal products, but it seems to me that you are not interested in science as much as you seem to have a political agenda or personal sensitivity to the idea of veganism so I won’t bother sharing the plethora of nutritional science literature that exists. I’m also not familiar with “fluatance” so I can’t comment on how that “floats away.”
I guess you think that a web sight named “heart.attack.proof.diet” or “forks over knives.” like the two links you provided above, are an unbiased source of information? Web sights like these are only interested in mining the bank accounts of the gullible who have feelings of guilt over their diets or lifestyles. Veganism is just the same old New England Puritanism we all are familiar with, exemplified by interference in our lifestyles or else by busy body blue nose sexual repression. Vegans need something to make them feel superior over the rest of us and Veganism is that “thing“.
Awww, you’re so angry!?! That’s cute.
Like all religious extremist you continue to be so wrong that almost the whole world recognizes the error of your beliefs, and only remain silent out of the sense of embarrassment they feel towards you. But thank you anyway for proving the readers of this blog with further such proof that I am correct and that Veganism is a extremist religious fraud.
You are probably the most fun troll I have ever encountered. You’re welcome. I’m glad I could help you in your cause to instigate. I just had one question about the context of “religious extremist,” did you mean that to refer to “relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity” or “scrupulously and conscientiously faithful.” Thanks for clarifying! Happy Thanksgiving!
I only meant to compare your words to an attempt on the part of vegans, and many if not most vegetarians to “convince” us that they alone are the legitimate guardians of our morals. They are out to make a living by skinning those who feel guilty about their diet. Veganism in other words is a combination of blue-nosed political ideas like Pat Buchanan’s tempered by Buchanan’s blue-nosed counterpart, Ingrid Newkirk.
You should read The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. It is the most extensive nutritional study, spanning 50 years, in which it shows the healthiest diet consists of no more than 10% of one’s diet coming from animal products.
SO? ! ? ! ? That’s what us omnivors do for Christ’s sake. Thats just another strike against the Vegans Christina.
Funny how if the baby of your average non-vegan parents dies of neglect, malnutrition, or similar vitamin deficiencies(which is still very possible as a meat-eater) you won’t see that on the news…
To all of the folks who are pumping out facts, statistics, percentages–what have you. Back up. We don’t know the bottom line. At the end of the day, one study says one thing, while another perfectly credible one says another. Nor do we know every detail behind this story.
It is very disappointing to see folks berate each other on here and embarrass themselves. Were are never going to agree with each other, so why in the world call each other names?
I am a vegan, not your stereotypical kind, and I have three children who were born to me as a vegan, and raised so. We all have semi-annual check-ups with full blood screening and no one has ever been deficient in any nutrient. All of my children are ahead of the curve, are bright, growing well and perfectly healthy–and yes, I breastfed all of them. We don’t judge others by what they eat. That’s their choice. If my children were to decide to eat animal products one day, I wouldn’t love them any less, although I suspect they’d always keep their love of good food. I am very scrupulous about ensuring they have a balanced diet.
Please, don’t lump all vegans into one pile. We’re not all the same, just as meat-eating people are not all the same.
As far as this news story goes, please know that there are many, many factors we don’t know here in order to cast judgement. No parent would hold steadfast to starve their baby.
By your own ill chosen words you have reveled that you yourself are the “Lowest form of scum” easily equal to if not exceeding the scum you claim others are. But it is OK Vic, words like yours are what I expected. Thank you for confirming my faith in the Vegan community as well as exposing it to everyone for what it really is.
I eat meat myself, so obviously I have no problem with meat-eaters… but seriously, meat eaters who condemn and criticize vegitarians/vegans have to be the lowest form of scum I have ever seen on an internet forum…….Don’t be mad that you dont have the inner strength to make the sacrafices these people make because they feel its wrong that an animal should die everytime they want to fill their belly……meat eating is a luxury…a luxury that can only be manifested by the death of an animal that wants to live……I applaud those who make sacrafices so that other creatures may live, plain and simple
“… vegans STILL think their diet is healthy — it’s unreal. It’s more of a religion …”
This is true. I have never met or talked to a vegan who if the subject of their diet came up, did not get a faraway hypnotized look in their eyes, much like the look you see in the eyes of a devout serpent handling Christian fundamentalist. In fact Vegans remind me of Roy Moore the Alabama 10 Commandments judge more than they remind me of any moral vision shared by rational humans.