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
http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-diet/
psychiatric treatment would be more appropriate.
The number 1 cause of death is heart disease from bad eating habits, definitely not ever caused by a vegan diet yet this doesn’t make national news, however one person dies who happens to be vegan and its talked about as if its the worst thing in the world. Makes no sense.
Take home story… Veganism due to a lifestyle choice… is an insult to the capabilities of the human body.
Not a logical conclusion from the data.
this pisses me off of course they should be charged every mother knows there child needs b12 i did formula and still bought the drops to give my childrens its pure common sense and she knew that and she was told poor baby that is neglect and they should be held accoutable for it they obviously didnt care. there is no excuse for it bottm line
proof that all you self-righteous vegan hippie idiots that lip off to people who eat meat are in fact wrong and more unhealthy than us omnivores, go **** yourselves.
Not a logical conclusion from the data.
I can see charging them because they never took child to doctor after became ill. I see no reason to charge them for the diet they chose to live by.
My question is this: why was this child exclusively breast fed at 11 months of age? Did these parents not introduce solids to their child already? Odd.
i couldn’t even get through half the comments on this page. It’s pretty simple, if you want to eat vegan, eat vegan. If you want to eat vegetarian, eat vegetarian. If you want to eat meat, eat meat. DO NOT PUSH YOUR DIET ON OTHERS. If they ask you about it let them know, but for the sake of all that is good and holy, don’t force your ideologies onto other people. Some of these comments have spoken about what is and isn’t natural. Someone said to compare our teeth to that of a cat, we aren’t cats. We are humans our teeth are designed to cut and crush. Our front teeth cut meat, they cut carrots, hell they cut our own gums when they are forming. Our back teeth crush meat, they crush carrots. Human teeth were designed to eat most anything. A well rounded diet can be produced from many sources so long as the people eating it are well informed. In closing I would just like to say to everyone, be kind to your neighbor.
Part of this is about ideology
and part is about the damage to the Earth.
Read “Diet for a New America” for the data.