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Should vegan parents imposing their beliefs on children have them taken away? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It has been a proven fact that vegan diet has very negative impact on children development and their intellectual skills and mental health.

There are number of examples where it led children to near death or nearly death - see examples below. Imposing vegan diet on children is an abuse, so should the state react faster rather than after the harm is done?

"The girl, now three, was so malnourished she looked like a three-month-old at 19 months. (...) The child was found with no teeth"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-4943085

"A vegan woman from Florida was sentenced to life in prison (...) following the death of her 18-month-old son from malnutrition. (...) He weighed only 17 pounds, making him about the size of a seven-month-old baby.The Cape Coral Police Department claimed all three children were found extremely malnourished.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/9097911/vegan-mom-sheila-oleary-life-in-prison-son-malnutrition-death/

"A couple have been jailed for causing or allowing the death of their three-year-old son after forcing him to endure an "extreme" vegan diet."

https://news.sky.com/story/parents-who-forced-extreme-vegan-diet-on-toddler-and-buried-his-body-in-garden-jailed-13271946

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Malnourishment should be a proper cause for removal. Most children can thrive on a properly nutritious plant based diet just fine.

Non-extremist vegans are sane about a lot of this kind of stuff. (And most vegans are of this non-extremist variety.) For example, they still accept vaccines that are developed with eggs. If a person or other animal in their care needs animal products in their diet, they see no moral issue with accommodating this.