[100% veg*n ] murder?

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irene_lucy wrote:

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> Please note that on the listed symptoms it is said that there may be

> confusion or change in mental status in severe or advanced cases of

> B12 deficiency, therefore the mother herself was probably more ill

> than she realised and most likely cannot be held responsible for her

> baby's death. Hopefully she has a good lawyer who will argue this if

> the medical tests on her bear it out.

 

A real problem: vegans with B12 deficiency can be too far gone to do

anything about it.

 

> The vegan community in her country should have been better supporting

> her. This baby's death surely would have been prevented if

> neighbouring vegans were there supporting vegan families in their

> area. Very sad that this was allowed to happen through general

> neglect of families within the vegan community.

 

The case in Britain (Arena?) involved plenty of vegans trying to tell

them to feed her other foods. That didn't save the baby's life.

 

> More kids die from illnesses caused by parental smoking than from

> inadequate vegan diets and this is not in the news all the time. It

> should be and this is manslaughter, possibly murder, because the

> parents know the harm they are doing!

 

Firstly, we know about illnesses from parental study more through

epidemiology than through individual cases. It's hard to point to

individual (eg) cot deaths and say it's because of smoking.

 

Secondly, we probably don't have the data, but I seriously suspect that

the numbers *as a proportion* aren't all that different. There aren't

that many vegans, but a handful of high-profile child deaths. There any

many more smoking parents, but very fiew provably smoking-caused child

deaths.

 

Of course, you've got a point. People are worried about newspaper sales

to smokers, but not about newspaper sales to vegans.

 

 

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