News Malnourishment leads to Child being taken away by local government

[S-MAN]

https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...t/news-story/00b9be2eac43730183111939626ee10a

This is sad. Pray for the children affected by these sorts of people. And if you see someone doing something similar to their own child, report them please. The more you know.
Also to be fair this is more about malnutrition but I have heard of another separate case where an infant died due to similarly made poor decisions. Title is click-bait but also soorta true.

 

[Arcaneum]

That's not the vegan diet that is abusing the child, that's on the parents for putting them on it and not acting when realising their child isn't necessarily displaying good health.

 

[S-MAN]

The thing is that it's never really good for very young children who are growing.
https://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet-veganbaby.html

Here's a small piece taken from the site: A vegan diet is equally dangerous for weaned babies and toddlers, who need plenty of protein and calcium. Too often, vegans turn to soy, which actually inhibits growth and reduces absorption of protein and minerals. That's why health officials in Britain, Canada and other countries express caution about soy for babies. (Not here, though - perhaps because our farm policy is so soy-friendly.) How far will people push the ideology?

 

[juliorain]

there's nothing inherently wrong with a vegan diet; it's ignoring their child's needs is the problem. While it is much easier to have a well rounded, wholesome with meat, eggs, and dairy, the burden on you is to correctly account for those nutrients they provide which is the challenge. I'm an omnivore myself, but there are ways to get enough daily requirements of protein, fat, and calcium. The parents ignored the child's dietary needs when their medical condition suggested that they needed a nonvegan diet. I think this touches on a more general subject that reaches farther than just should parents force their kids a vegan diet, should they force medication, should they force vaccines? In my opinion that the health of the child should be first which means take their vaccines (unless they can't for some bizarre medical reason), modern medicine should be required (if parents deny them medication for religious reasons then they are only endangering the child). Staying ethically consistent for them, it seems bypassed the needs of the child where the child required more protein than what the vegan diet could provide.