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Parents On Trial For Allegedly Starving Baby With Raw Diet
Associated Press ^ | October 17 2005 | Curt Anderson

Posted on 10/17/2005 5:59:35 PM PDT by twippo

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1 posted on 10/17/2005 5:59:38 PM PDT by twippo
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Odd. One would think that people so focused on natural health would have breastfed the baby.


2 posted on 10/17/2005 6:03:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!)
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To: twippo

If the other 4 children thrive on normal food, would that be admissable evidence in the trial for the baby's death?


3 posted on 10/17/2005 6:06:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When bad things happen, conservatives get over it!)
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To: twippo
Result of going against God and nature. Even animals know how to feed their offsprings (that's what breasts and milk are for). Stupid vegans not only screw themselves, but even their innocent babies.
4 posted on 10/17/2005 6:06:14 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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"There's a lot of prejudice against people who follow an unusual food diet.

No, there is prejudice against crazy libs who should not be parents because they inflict their preferences on defenseless children. Hope these idiots are never able to procreat again.

5 posted on 10/17/2005 6:06:29 PM PDT by conservativebabe (proud to be a vitriolic hyperconservative)
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To: twippo

Liberalism IS a sickness.


6 posted on 10/17/2005 6:23:20 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: twippo

Yes the state would like you to abort your children, and if you don't the state will nail you for anything they can, if you don't raise them as per their book.


7 posted on 10/17/2005 6:23:34 PM PDT by zipp_city
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To: Leo Carpathian

I once worked with a guy who was an organic health food vegan. He was the most pale, anemic, sickly person I ever met. I ate steak, and I feel fine.


8 posted on 10/17/2005 6:40:12 PM PDT by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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Vegan meals are great!


I prefer mine with a side order of rib-eye; but chops or ribs will do.
9 posted on 10/17/2005 6:52:23 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA (")
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To: twippo

"...and God created animals, so that Man would not have to eat the plants of the Earth, but rather could receive delicious meat, which was sent from Heaven." -Carnivores 10:4


10 posted on 10/17/2005 6:58:24 PM PDT by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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All of my meals are at least partially vegan. Cows eat grass, hence, vegan meal. Same with milk. Totally organic.


11 posted on 10/17/2005 7:01:39 PM PDT by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: Chickensoup

Exactly what I was thinking. I nursed my son for at least 8 mos straight because he didn't want anything to do with food until he could put it in his mouth himself. You just can't force a baby to take solids. What a little porker he was. He's my best eater now and fit as a fiddle.


12 posted on 10/17/2005 7:07:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Tax-chick

It doesn't sound like the other children were thriving and the nutritional needs of infants are different. I've read reports of children on strict vegetarian diets and they often can have "failure to thrive" where they stop growing and gaining weight. Anyone who does a diet like that really has to know what they are doing. Probably the only reason the other kids did better was because they were able to sneak real food. If you're hungry enough, you'll do it and risk the beating, I'm sure, cause you might not get caught.


13 posted on 10/17/2005 7:11:48 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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I'm not too familiar with wheat grass and coconut water; I believe almond milk is like Rice Dream or soy milk from an almond base. Has anyone tried these foods?


14 posted on 10/17/2005 7:20:47 PM PDT by twippo
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Not me. The most I've tried is soy milk. It's OK.


15 posted on 10/17/2005 7:29:01 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Wheat grass has all the vitamins minerals and enzymes known to man and has them in very high amounts,it has maybe 100 times the amount of iorn as spinach. About two to 4 ounces of wheat grass liquid a week and you can move mountains.


16 posted on 10/17/2005 7:40:53 PM PDT by zipp_city
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Here's a link In case everyone has not heard about wheat grass yet.
http://www.bondiwheatgrass.com.au/wheatgrass/nutrient/index.html


17 posted on 10/17/2005 7:49:26 PM PDT by zipp_city
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Wow! You would think the medical and nutrition establishments should be promoting wheat grass more. Does it have a grasslike consistency or it is only drunk?


18 posted on 10/17/2005 7:56:19 PM PDT by twippo
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Wheat grass has all the vitamins minerals and enzymes known to man and has them in very high amounts

How about the carbs, starches, proteins, etc. that a growing child needs? Flintstones Vitamins might have all of the vitamins and minerals that a child needs, but feeding them only those would be a clear case of child neglect. Bone and muscle mass has to be built from somewhere, and vegan and other "alternative" (read "bull***t") diets can do permanent damage to growing children. An adult might be able to get by on a vegan diet, but children cannot (especially during early years or during puberty)...

19 posted on 10/17/2005 7:56:28 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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Don't jump on the bandwagon yet. There are plenty of the standard pseudo-scientific claims on that website (the BS-meter is overloading). Take for example:

Both chlorophyll (as in organic wheatgrass juice) and haemoglobin (red blood cells) are molecularly similar. The only actual difference is that the central element in chlorophyll is magnesium and in haemoglobin it is iron, so chlorophyll has been shown to build red blood cells quickly after ingestion.

Uhhh, no. Molecular similarity is irrelevant. Graphite is molecularly identical to diamond... feel free to show me the easy way to transform one into the other. Perhaps if there was some data to support the idea that chlorophyll was not broken down in the digestive system and was simply transformed, then the website might have a point (funny how they neglect that data). But an explanation how that molecule travels fundamentaly whole to the blood production sites and then is catalyzed into haemoglobin would be far more persuasive.

Add to this the down right humorous claims about Body Cleansing, and you have the standard alternative medicine/foods hyperbole.

It's not about the presence or amounts of "nutrients," it's about the form they come in (making them easier to metabolize... instead of just passing right through the body)...

20 posted on 10/17/2005 8:11:04 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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