Did anyone else read the NY Times article about Vegainsm killing babies?

Question

There is a court case charging vegan parents with murder for killing thier child with a vegan diet. Science can prove thier child did die from malnutrition as a result of it's diet. Do you agree this is murder?

Answer 1

There are many court cases with omnivore parents. The title doesnt mean anything. Yes I think it was murder, and not because they were vegan parents, but because they were irresponsible parents.Tthere are plenty of healthy vegan children in the world. They did not feed their child human breast milk. Human breast milk is meant for human babies. Any vegan with common sense will tell you that. They did not properly take care of their child period. That is neglect, due to human ignorance and selfishness and none to do with the vegan community of the world. Those who murder in "the name of god", does not mean that all Christians, or any other religion followers for that fact are murderers. These parents simply used a vegan diet as a defense, like some use the bible as a defense, or others use insanity as a defense..


By the way, the prosecutors themselves were tearing down veganism as a defense. Here is a letter to the editor in response to that terribly written article in the New York Times, from a prosectution witness themselves.
Op-Ed Contributor: Death by Veganism (May 21, 2007)
Re "Death by Veganism," by Nina Planck (Op-Ed, May 21):

I am a nutritionist who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution
in the criminal trial of the parents of Crown Shakur. As the lead prosecutor
in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet.
He was starved to death by parents who did not give him breast milk,
soy-based infant formula or enough food of any kind.

Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their
infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of
scientific research. Contrary to Ms. Planck's assertions, there are healthy
plant-based sources of docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA; calcium can be absorbed
about as readily from soy milk as from cow's milk; and soy does not inhibit
growth.

Studies have found that vegan children are within the normal ranges for
weight and height, and I personally know vegan mothers and vegan children
who are healthier than many of their omnivorous peers.

Amy Joy Lanou
Washington, May 21, 2007
The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine.

Answer 2

The child did not die due to the lack of meat, eggs, and milk, but due to his parents' irresponsibility with providing him a balanced diet. There have been many cases with health fanatics starving their children and such, and every time that the parents are vegan this becomes over-emphasized by the press. It is definitely murder to deny your child a balanced diet, but to feed a child a healthy, balanced vegan diet is not murder at all.

Answer 3

Veganism has nothing to do with neglect. My children were vegan until they were over 2 yr old, and now, at 10 they are again.
Sadly, it comes down to this... veganism is getting a bad name because of this, however, even babies with omnivore parents have died from neglect. Any baby that is not being fed properly can die. My question is, didn't this child have check-ups? Was there ever a diagnosis of failure to thrive or any signs of neglect before the death?
I think it is neglect, and therefore it is murder, but I think their diet is being used as a scapegoat...

Answer 4

I don't think it has anything to do with a vegan diet,but I'm not sure whether or not it should be considered murder.

Answer 5

Of course it is murder, to watch a baby fail to thrive is horrendous, surely they had to see it losing weight which anyone would think is dangerous in a baby. They should have taken the child to a pediatrician immediately.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty.

This particular calamity — at least the third such conviction of vegan parents in four years — may be largely due to ignorance. But it should prompt frank discussion about nutrition

Answer 8

if they did it on purpose then yes but it was probably an accident, im a vegan myself and i have tons of vegan and vegetarian friends that were born vegan or vegetarian and they're living fine, no problem at all, they didnt die, and u no vegans and vegetarians live longer then everyone else

Answer 9

I have heard of this and i think that they didnt intentionally kill their child, it was probably an accident. Im sure the parents are really upset and blame there selves it was just a huge mistake. Veganism is sort of a religion if you think about and extremist in religions commit crimes like this often, so the parents of this child are really making veganism look bad like those extremist, and yes maybe they took it a little to far but they didnt realize it. At most involuntary manslaughter! (but they made a huge mistake that cost a human their lives and that guilt will live with them forever)

Answer 10

Absolutely. If a parent decides they don't want their child to eat meat or dairy products they must find a way to properly supplement their child's diet. If they don't, they are inadvertently starving their kid. Whether or not they mean to doesn't matter.