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
seriously just give your kid baby food, that was the shit!!!! I loved that stuff. No breastmilk for me.
“Achieving an adequate B12 intake is easy and there are several methods to suit individual preferences. Absorption of B12 varies from about 50%, if about 1 microgram or less is consumed, to about 0.5% for doses of 1000 micrograms (1 milligram) or above. So the less frequently you consume B12, the higher the total amount needs to be to give the desired absorbed amount.” Source: http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/b12.aspx
Last year it was projected that world cancer rates will increase by 75% to 95% by 2030…. but for those of you in the west… no worry. These rates will increase as the countries in Asia, Africa and India change to a western diet.
“A “westernized” diet – containing red and processed meats, refined grains, fats and sugars – has been connected to colon cancer; habits such as smoking and inactivity have also been connected to higher rates of cancer.”
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/global-cancer-rates-will-rise-75-percent-by-2030.html#ixzz2UJAq789n
I’m guessing whoever writes this blog is funded by the meat, egg or dairy industry. The implication is that only vegan babies die from complications lack of nutrition. If you want to believe that infant mortality rates are due to a vegan diet, then you haven’t looked into the issue properly.
Most of the vegans that I’ve met also believe in homeopathy, quantum healing and lots of other BS. The main point of this article must surely be that the child “died without the parents ever seeking proper medical attention.” They were jailed because they watched their child die and did nothing to prevent it.
what bothers me most about this, is that it’s stated that they didn’t seek help from a physician. the kid must have shown signs that something was wrong. why did the parents ignore that and never take the baby to a doctor? i don’t understand how anyone could live vegan, but that’s me. they’re eating the animal’s, that they are trying to save, food away. but as i said, that’s me. don’t care what people eat, but take care of your kids. if they are sick, don’t ignore that and take them to a doctor. so, as bad as they must have felt about their baby dying, i do believe they deserved that sentence.
I’m French and remember reading about this. The baby died because she wasn’t treated for pneumonia. Although she was malnourished she wouldn’t have died from the malnourishment but from the disease that went untreated. I think the parents were convicted because they didn’t seek treatment (not just because of malnourishment)
B12 Deficiency is an epidemic in the U.S………god KNOWS that there is NO LACK of obesity in this country yet a HUGE percentage of you are eating loads of meat everyday and lacking COMPLETELY in much needed vitamins/minerals! Most of you people are uneducated about diet, you should shut your mouths and go take some courses in nutrition………..wow! You all sound really ignorant! This baby had other underlining issues, obviously.
I just think that it is aweful and horrible and so cruel that they prosecuted the mother!! im sure she didnt know her baby would die, im sure she didnt expect her baby to die, and now not only is she going through the awful and heartbreaking experience of loosing her child but everyone is blaming her and saying she killed her baby and making her sit in jail … its just cruel how the worl works sometimes….
You all make it so complicated and love to fight. The plain fact is, that the baby died because of its health being neglected. Regardless of how good you think you are being in being vegan, the truth is that this couple, not all people, were not careful of their actions and how they affected their child. Noone is saying all vegans are bad, but it IS a controversial lifestyle that requires much dedication and research and knowledge and if you cannot do it properly one shouldn’t do it at all. I DO blame veganism in this case because the autopsy proved that it is the mothers neglectful diet that hurt the baby, one that could have been easily prevented if the mother had been smart enough to be careful when it came to the potential risks imposed on that child by her personal choices of diet. The same would go for anyone else. Vegans and Vegitarians need to get off their high horse and off the paranoia bandwagon. If there is no worry for you then why are you so offended? Take care of yourself instead of worrying about arguing with others simply because they don’t agree with your choices. Unless the guilt is racking you, then perhaps you should consider that for once, you may be wrong in your choices and do somehting about it or shut up and stop whining.
I wish we could get this much uproar about child abuse that kills many more
children than anything like this does.
Ummm… No…
Abuse is abuse, no matter who does it or what their dietary choices are…
Adam
Paul, the PCRM is a shilling front group for PETA. Less than 5% of its membership are a medical professional. However one of the officers of the PCRM stated in the past that he wouldn’t interfere if ants were eating his child alive. That is in reality what the mother and father of this child did, they did not intervene when it was obvious that their child’s health was in the crapper.