The unintentional murder of a child
Sad story of the Vegan lifestyle gone horribly wrong.
From
The Florida Times-Union:
Vegan couple found guilty of killing malnourished baby
A Superior Court jury convicted a vegan couple of murder and cruelty to children Wednesday in the death of their 6-week-old, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.
Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, will receive automatic life sentences for starving the boy, who weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died.
Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans, who typically use no animal products. They said Sanders and Thomas did not realize the baby, who was born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died.
Clueless and tragic... Grown adults can live with much more strict dietary whims than growing infants. The kid only weighed 3.5 pounds when he died. Face it folks, we are omnivores. We can survive on a diet of plant materials if we supplement our vitamins and minerals but to swing over to the extremes of Vegan is lunacy for a growing infant.
Posted by DaveH at May 2, 2007 9:44 PM