A vegan couple in Virginia were incarerated for failing to give their baby proper nutrition.  Apparently she couldn't generate milk and they refused to use anything that was an animal product.  They gave the baby apple juice and soy milk and it died (diarrhea and malnutrition).  If you found a homeless kitten, would you be smart enough to recognize it as a mammal?  
Same thing with this family in Wisconsin who prayed over their dying daughter instead of taking her to a doctor - same thing in my mind.  Belief triumphing over science.
gale



----- Original Message ----
From: Ashley Moran <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:45:32 PM
Subject: Re: Vegan girl

On 11 Jun 2008, at 22:12, Inci Willard wrote:
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4087977.ece
> Hopefully parents will be charged for their action.

A few years back I knew a guy who had a son about 5 at the time, he  
was in the kids group of my old kung fu club.  The boy was irritable,  
and always seemed a bit slow.  He couldn't concentrate and could never  
do things as well as the other children.

Turns out his dad was vegetarian, and fed his son a vegetarian diet  
too.  I'm still convinced that was the reason he was so behind.

However, I have a feeling you'd more likely get arrested for feeding  
your children a paleo diet than a vegetarian one, even if the paleo- 
fed child was in perfect health and the vegetarian one was mentally  
and physically behind.  (I don't know though, I'd love to be proved  
wrong there.)

Ashley