Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry <[log in to unmask]>:
>It's quite possible that the cause of death was something completely
>different--ie. a physical problem or genetic disease that blocked absorption
>or digestion. These things may certainly be related to diet (sometimes over
>generations) but babies on cooked, or animal product diets die everyday from
>similar things and noone blames the diet or parents.

You present an interesting hypothesis; let's work with it.
Assume the death is not due to malnutrition but some other factor.
Then, given that the child is sick, we note that a rational parent
would get medical care for the child. In contrast, a parent poisoned
by the irrational anti-MD rhetoric of natural hygiene, would avoid such
medical care. In that way the raw/NH ideology is a causal factor in the
child's death, if it causes the parent to not get proper care for
the child.

Tom Billings