Now, theoretically, would a baby breast-fed by a vegetarian/vegan mother......?

Question

...lack the enzymes required to digest meat?

Answer 1

The answer is NO ......... The human body has a very long intestine with alkaline enzymes for digesting plants ...we are not made well for the consumption of meat to begin with ...
The bodies of carnivores (which we are not) have very short intestines with acidic enzymes to rapidly digest and pass meat. Some meat literally rots in our bodies, since the intestine cannot not move it through fast enough. If you recall Elvis Presley's autopsy showed over 40 pounds of trapped undigested meat ...and the average adult carries about 10 pounds of undigested rotting meat in their intestines...So the enzymes that are needed or lets say sufficient enough for some meat consumption the baby will have ....as part of our make up

Answer 2

We started as herbivores thousands of years ago and then we evolved into carnivores later. All you vegans should have a serious look at evolution and the bone transformations even of mankind. Which shows as our teeth evolved and our bodies we could eat only meat over many thousands of years ago. Adventually we were able to eat both. Maybe evolution will have it one way or another but there are many things in our bodies that require a range of products at present. Vitamins are not natural and if we were meant to eat them as a permanent part of life they would grow on trees. Im not saying we have to eat meat but there are proteins in meat our bodies need and fruits and nuts alone which is good brain food aint a substitute for meat and the products they spray on vegetables and fruit is far worse for us than any meat product, given there are transfered diseases from meat but the sprays are pure poison and they seep into the fruit and cant be washed up. Genetic engineering has stopped this need but causes unnatural products which can have adverse side effects. If vegans feeding babies bring up healthy food fine then evolution may have healthy vegan babies. But all vegans and i know need substitutes and are quite fit and still not as healthy as before they were vegan doesnt that say something. And if we were meant to be number one on the food chain why do we have animals that give us eggs and milk. Many animals only have a life for this purpose and people would kill them just for fun until they were extinct otherwise.

Answer 3

No. Unless the child is born w/ inborn errors of metabolism, it has all enzymes needed in it's body to digest foods. The baby doesn't get those enzymes from the mother's milk.

Answer 4

excellent question! I have no earthly idea. I would think however, if the child was raised by a vegan mother, they would be a vegetarian for life. My daughter wouldn't eat meat if she was starving and thats all there was. She won't even eat the fake meats, as they are too close to the real deal. I am giving your question a star, and will be interested in the answers given

Answer 5

I guess that depends on whether those enzymes are present in breast milk naturally, or if they must come from the mother's food. I would guess they are present naturally, but that is a guess.

Personally, I have never been able to understand Vegetarianism/Veganism. I don't buy the claim that it is more natural, since our origins are hunter/gatherer cultures. Hunter, that means meat.

Answer 6

No. There are no specific plant or meat digesting enzymes; only enzymes for protein, fat and carbohydrate digestion.

Answer 7

i might completely permit somebody else breastfeed my youngster! I hate pumping and if i ought to flee with no longer doing it then remarkable! moist nursing is an particularly known prepare and can be fairly habitual in the international if we did no longer have formulation. How else might some infants be fed if we did no longer have formulation and the mummy replaced into no longer waiting to nurse? additionally, intense classification women might have moist nurses to take care of their infants for them back in the day. in extra distant places, women take turns looking after the infants mutually as the others assemble nutrition (women deliver domicile 70% of the 1st Baron Verulam in hunter/gatherer societies) and actually some moist nursing occurs there. i does not be frightened approximately bonding, toddler in basic terms has one mommy who does such countless extra issues than in basic terms breast feed. I in basic terms choose you to nicely known that it extremely is an particularly known ingredient in lots of components of the international. i'm no longer seeing something incorrect with it different than very own selection.

Answer 8

I've no idea about the question, but I would like to thank the asker for realizing breastfeeding is vegan-compatible.

Answer 9

My friend breast fed her daughter for 2 years and she was a vegan.. Well my friend decided to go back to eating dead animals! (TRAITOR) and her daughter digests all that crap.. Has no issues.

Answer 10

breast fed by a vegan?? that baby could have had a v-8,lol