Negative news about Vegan Diet !!!
Posted by Ashish May 10th, 2007
I was reading BBC news online and found these two articles that bash vegan and vegetarian diets. Some of the claims made here are based on poor quality studies conducted by the “National Cattleman’s Beef Association”. Especially in the first article where the vegan couple in Georgia was jailed for life because their son died. Some parts of the article to suggest that the vegan diet is to blame for their son’s death. Where really it’s the parents that did not know what and how to feed their baby, especially when the baby was only 3.5 pounds at 6 weeks, they refused to take the baby to a hospital. I am posting these articles because I want to put this out to you guys and see if there is any thing we can do to counter these articles. Are there people that we can write to about this? are there petitions that we can fill out and send to BBC? I can just see someone in the future arguing for a non-veg diet and say that “well there were these articles on BBC that said that “it is unethical to feed children with a vegan diet, and that a 6 week baby died because he was on a vegan diet”.
click the links below to see the articles,
http://www.ashish.maru.us/Misc/Vegan/1.pdf
http://www.ashish.maru.us/Misc/Vegan/2.pdf
I am just looking for an open discussion of ideas; please share your thoughts through comments.
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1. Mahendra | May 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Ashish,
These are pathetic studies and numerous studies have shown that VEG diet is very healthy and has numerous benefits. That is the reason the Diet recommendations have changed drastically and more or less suggest VEG diet mainly per food Pyramid.
These are byassed study funded by Beef interest group.
Just ignore them,.
Mahendra
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