HELP AP/VEGAN BABY TAKEN FROM FAMILY -- PLEASE CIRCULATE

[Guest guest]

This was sent to me from another vegan group. I hope someone can be of

assistance!

Peace,

Laura in MD

 

 

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HELP AP/VEGAN BABY TAKEN FROM FAMILY -- PLEASE CIRCULATE

 

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!

 

Healthy breastfed 14 month old removed from parents' care for vegan

lifestyle:

 

I have known this man through internet and telephone contacts for

years (going through parenting and nutrition research papers with him he's

very research oriented) who now has had his child taken away because the

doctors were very freaked out that a 14m.o. recieves human milk still

(instead of cow's milk as they recommend), is parented by attachment

parenting methods and is fed raw vegetables, nuts, yeast and such with no

meat or eggs. They brought him in for a fever and the doctors found slight

anemia (which is known in medical literature to be common in an ill child)

and has no other test studies to support a diagnosis of " failure to thrive "

(the baby is in the lower 25percentile for weight and has reached all his

developmental milestones and according to the grandmother in the newspaper

story was " always happy " before being removed from his parents' care). The

family is in New York and needs good legal counsel (i.e. understands

breastfeeding and nutrition and natural parenting practices) in that state,

for starters. I was asked to circulate the below. Regards,

Linda Folden Palmer, DC, author Baby Matters, infant nutrition consultant

 

ATTENTION ALL VEGANS and VEGETARIANS

 

Would you want your child taken from you because you refused to feed

him/her meat, dairy or other animal products? As a mother, would you feel

comfortable knowing that your nursing child had been taken from you and

placed in a foster home where he/she would be fed commercial baby food and

milk-based baby formula? That his/her social and emotional needs were being

ignored, even though you and your spouse adhered to tenets of Attachment

Parenting and the Continuum Concept (both proven to optimize child

development)?

 

There's a witch hunt in our midst:

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/09-07-2004/news/crime_file/story/229622p-1972

18c.html

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09062004/news/regionalnews/29978.htm

 

 

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

If you are a lawyer, a medical professional, a holistic practitioner, or

a parenting expert, please respond ASAP. This family needs advocates from

the vegan and vegetarian communities DESPERATELY, before their family is

torn apart again.

 

If you are a nursing vegan or vegetarian mother, or a practicing

vegan/vegetarian (parent or not), GET THE WORD OUT! Feel free to

cross-post this message to other vegan/vegetarian groups, tell your

friends about this injustice, spread the word.

 

Write to the Editors of the Daily News and the New York Post. Tell them

that this sort of slanted journalism is unacceptable:

letters and voicers

 

WHY DO I CARE?

This concerns my godson's future, his parents' rights, and the rights

of all vegan/vegetarian parents to raise their children as they choose,

without unwanted interventoin. I was raised vegan and vegetarian, and

have been healthier and freer of childhood illness, infection and

disease because of my mother and father's wise choices. Because New York

City's medical " professionals " are uninformed about the benefits of a

vegan/vegetarian diet, *especially* for children, they have mounted an

attack on my godson's well-being. He was a healthy, happy, breast-fed,

vegan/organic, well-adjusted baby before he was taken from his parents

(after an emergency hospital visit for a high fever) and placed in foster

care. The cause? Iron-deficiency anemia (9.1), which -- as most medical

professionals should know -- is common in all children, even those who eat

meat or dairy.

 

From Medline, " Drinking too much cow's milk is a classic

cause of iron deficiency in young children. " (Full article,

 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007134.htm#Definition)

 

 

Thank you for your time, and please help if you can....

 

-Arien Muzacz

bklynvixen2004

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I think it's important to point out that there seem to be larger issues

at stake on this story....although the unfortunate practice of putting

vegan in the headline as if to suggest that the diet is dangerous is

(of course) a continuing problem in the media.

 

Liz