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. Beta carotene is not true vitamin A 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: 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 Veganism
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
In India over 60% of the population is pure vegetarian since centuries and they have nice and plump babies.. Its not the meat but the care and precaution with which you raise your child.. What happened so suddenly that the child died.. If the child was deficient of the nutrients he must’ve shown some signs of weakness and sickness.. He must’ve been very weak if he died of any deficiency, why didn’t the parents take care then.. I mean the doc should’ve prescribed meds for that.. I see this case as an attack on vegan diet.. N you don’t just breastfeed your child for so long, you gotto start semi solid diet and other nutritious juices, dals, etc. by now.. A child starts to crawl and even take lil steps by the age of one.. I find this article highly debatable..
It’s called “failure to thrive”.
Just because it happened to a vegan mother, the author is all excited and has her dick all hard. Chill, woman.
Yeah, it has happened to millions of omnivores.
O.k. this woman is 70 and looks maybe in her 40s. She’s vegan. She’s a grandmother. How many meat eaters reading this are close to being in this good of shape?
And this woman is also vegan and 70+. Also in good shape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcvq63B2bOY
I personally consume a little dairy but have been vegetarian for a long time.
Most people that don’t know me guess that I’m about half my age. I almost never get sick, even if I’m very close to very sick people. I’ll take drinks of sick people’s drinks and not get sick.
To those that say some doctors say people need meat, I will say this. There are also doctors that say people DON’T need to eat meat. Just because a doctor says something, doesn’t mean it’s true.
Vegetarians and vegans shouldn’t JUST not eat meat. They should make sure they’re eating healthy and getting enough nutrients.
This is a tradgedy. If the mother has lost her child it is bad enough. She was doing her best lives her life she believes in. What’s the ulternatives GMO baby formula? She does not need to be punnished for this. This is not right. Giving birth is hard enough, taking care of a new baby, she sadly must have gotten run down. For god sake give her a break she needs to Morn.
Was the baby ever seen by a Pediatrician? The Dr. should’ve caught it! I wouldn’t hold the parents responsible unless the baby was never seen by a Dr. To pin it just on the mother and her breast milk, there has to be more to the story!
This article says that the baby was deficient in these vitamins, not that this deficiency actually caused his death. It is a slippery slope indeed to begin prosecuting parents for their diet, when we are unable to determine exactly what impact poor diet, as a choice or due to economic constraints, does to a fetus or newborn. What about drugs and alcohol? Tobacco? How do we decide who faces litigation?
Sorry to say but both sides are wrong. Many, if not all vegan and vegetarian parents will start their infants on the same diet as them, considering children are highly sensitive to what you do and dont put into their bodies. I know many that will feed their children sufficient amounts of animal biproducts so they will be able to grow properly. Besides the fact that the baby was fed vegan breast milk, it should have been fed solid foods since the age of 6 months along with his mothers milk. the baby was malnourished and it can only be blamed on the parents, not on the life style.
Poor Baby He justa Wanted Some BACON 🙁 !!! Vegans Are Bad People !!! Everybody Deserves BACON 😀 !!!
“While I’m not sure I favor charging the parents in this tragedy as it smacks of Big Brother far too much for my comfort level, it does communicate a clear message to other vegans”
What a weird way to use the word, “smack”. There’s better words to use and better ways to commmunicate. I can’t take this writer or site seriously anymore if that’s the kind akward language they are going to use.
Where are the sources for this article? All of the links are broken , it doesn’t mention names, and I don’t see it mentioned on other sites other than bedroom bloggers’.