Plant-based diet propaganda taking its toll, especially on children

I came across this list of vegan children deaths and injuries. In one case an infant died of starvation due to being fed soya milk and apple juice. Probably because mother's milk isn't vegan. Just how much more retarded can this logic get??
The first case is even more shocking to me. The baby was fed strictly on mother's milk (so at least no nonsense food) and still died of vitamin deficiency. So when you are on a vegan diet you are not capable of healthy motherhood because you won't simply deliver sufficiently nutritional mother's milk to your baby. I actually never thought of that but it makes perfect sense. Where there's nothing coming in, the body won't miraculously create the right stuff out of thin air. I've never connected the dots here before. Geeze :headbash:
 
I have not noticed this previously:

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Plans To Raise Baby As Vegan
RaiseVegan.com
April 10th, 2019

The due date is nearing rapidly and any day could be the much anticipated day, for Meghan Markle is heavily pregnant and is in her last trimesters. Prince Harry and she had recently moved to their new shelter in Windsor, Frogmore cottage. According to a ‘palace insider’ who spoke to Woman’s Day, the Royal couple has decided to raise their upcoming baby as a vegan.

It must be noted that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shifted to a plant-based diet for most of the time (not implying they’re vegan). The couple met not more than three years ago and as per reports, Meghan Markle’s take on a healthy and cruelty-free lifestyle (Prince Harry sometimes following her) clashed with some royal protocols.

According to reports by Woman’s Day, Her Majesty is unhappy with Meghan and Prince Harry’s decision to raise a vegan child. As reported, the queen ‘won’t have it,’ as she is outraged by the 37-year-old Duchess’ choice, implying she is not impressed by Prince and Markle’s decision, a bit.

Veganism and the Royal Family

Moving on to Veganism and the Royal family, Raise Vegan has earlier posted about ‘Prince Charles and his regular meat-free days.’ Prince Charles subscribes to a plant-based diet on a regular basis, among other measures in order to align his health with the better. However, there is no arguing that the Royal Family do engage in some animal-suffering inducing acts like hunting.

As of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, according to News.au, Prince Harry had been reportedly choosing “less meat and more fruit and veg” from the time he’d met Meghan Markle, who herself maintains only plant-based diet during the weekdays. And now they’ve planned to raise a vegan baby. The couple reportedly opted for a vegan paint for their nursery and painted it gender-neutral grey and white. Markle herself tries to abstain for fashion that has animal cruelty like fur in it. Nonetheless, the Queen is apparently furious with their decision of raising a vegan child.

Implying his dislike for traditions that harming animal, the Duke of Sussex has earlier opted out certain Royal Traditions that partake in animal cruelty like the Royal Family’s yearly bird hunting expedition in 2018, and the traditional Boxing Day Hunt in 2017.

Why Raise a Vegan Child?

With reports claiming 1 in every 12 parents choosing to raise a vegan baby predominantly for health-related reasons, no wonder if Meghan Markle finally raises her baby a vegan, it will be great for both baby and planet. On the contrary, the animal-based diet has been associated with a number of health alignments like heart diseases, diabetes and cancer, and even early death.

If personal health reasons are not enough to choose vegan for some people, then there is the ‘whole plant’ reason to go for the same! Reports also suggest going plant-based is enormously beneficial for the planet.

According to their later article it looks like the queen is trying to do something good for change:

It’s A Boy! The Much Awaited Vegan Baby of Harry and Meghan is Here
RaiseVegan.com
May 10th, 2019
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Among many plannings, the Duke and Duchess had reportedly planned to raise the baby as a vegan but Queen had shown her disapproval on the matter. And now the baby is finally here.
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Will they become a poster couple for this vegan-revolution-climate-change-combat nonsense? For the baby's sake, hopefully not, but I don't hold my breath on this one.
 
I put some parts of the following article in bold as they seem to show the programming really is complete in some (many) individuals.

Parents Sentenced to 3 Months After Ideological Diet Leaves Starved Toddler Hours From Death (Sweden)
May 23rd 2019

Their one and a half-year-old daughter weighed the same as a six-month baby and was a few hours from death by starvation by the time her parents brought her to the emergency room, where doctors saved her life.

The Swedish couple, who are vegan, claimed that she had been suffering from a stomach bug.

But prosecutors argued that the girl had been pushed to the brink of death by a diet driven by the strange ideologies of the couple, who claimed to be “world citizens,” refused to give her supplements despite her vegan diet and espoused the virtues of a lifestyle without food and water.

On May 23, the Gothenburg District Court pronounced them both guilty of causing bodily harm by gross negligence and sentenced to three months imprisonment.

The girl has been in an emergency foster home since she was taken to Queen Silvia’s children’s hospital in February.

“The parents have stated that they have given the girl child plenty of well-balanced, nutritious and varied vegan diet,” said the court judgment. “Their explanation for the girl’s condition and very low weight—similar to that of a six-month baby—on arrival at the emergency room was that she had suffered a five-day, severe stomach disorder.”

However, the judge accepted the testimony of three doctors, who said that it was clear that her condition had been caused by prolonged starvation.

“According to her ideological belief that the daughter was a world citizen, her parents have failed to even report birth to any authority and have failed to control her at the child care center or even weigh or measure her growth. The girl has also not been vaccinated or examined by a doctor.”

The court noted that a vegan diet in itself is not inherently dangerous, but said that such a diet requires detailed knowledge of the art of cooking and nutritional science to be healthy.

According to nutritionists, some substances—most notably vitamin B12—cannot be found in a vegan diet, but can easily be added through supplements.

The court could not establish exactly what her parents had been feeding her—only that it was far from enough and far being well enough adapted.

The chairman of the court said the parents did not intentionally harm their daughter and had acted in accordance with their beliefs about what was best for their child.

At the same time, the court also noted concerns over those beliefs.

“For example, during her interrogation, the mother has explained her view that after long-term mental and physical exercise one can achieve a stage where one can live without food or water, that one is then a so-called breatharian.

The district court has assessed the penalty value to 3 months imprisonment. The parents must also pay damages to the daughter with SEK 60,000. ($6,200)

According to Expressen, the father said that meat products are toxic and that their daughter instead received breast milk and vegan products.

When asked whether she received any nutritional supplements, he replied. “No, no drops or such. She gets sunshine, laughter, and hugs.”

The court verdict stated that the mother said, “She is convinced that a person who, through dedicated training, has made himself mentally and physically ready, can cope completely without food or water.

During questioning, she told the court, “The universe takes care of us.

A similar case is currently being heard in an Australian court, with two Sydney parents accused of neglecting their youngest daughter, who developed rickets on a plant-based diet, and weighed the same as a three-month baby when she was 19 months and had not developed any teeth.

Her parents have pleaded guilty, reported AAP, and will be sentenced in July.
 
This could also go into The politics of climate change: Green New Deal and other madness thread but fits here as well.
Sweden is really reaching the point of no return when the migration crisis is approximately as bad as in France (many no go zones in several cities, crimes of migrants on the rise, well over state's average) and this gets combined with all the nonsense that is supposed to save us and the planet from the Climate Change.

I can see this coming in every European country but in some it will backfire more than in others. Sweden seems almost lost to me. I hope I am wrong.

Here comes the first attempt to impose obligatory vegetarian diet on children in the country. Not sure if it is a solo effort of the school's brainwashed management of if it was instructed by hidden forces to test the waters for state-wide policy implementation. Perhaps the latter is more likely?

Sweden: Preschool imposes vegetarian menu on students to “save the planet”

A school in Sweden has imposed vegetarianism on all of its students in a supposed attempt to help combat climate change.

The radical policy has been implemented at the Gitarren Preschool in Umeå and represents the first attempt by a municipal school to eliminate meat on the food menus. All meals served at the preschool will be entirely meatless, and students will not be given the choice to opt-out of the program, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

When the program begins in about two weeks, breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be entirely vegetarian, and those who would like to order meat will not be able to. No exceptions will be made.

Teachers claim that the school has only received positive feedback from parents and children.

Markus Sandström, a teacher at Gitarren Preschool, says: “There have only been positive reactions and many are grateful.”

We believe and hope that this can become permanent. So this is the idea, but it felt a bit drastic to go all out with it right away. We must evaluate properly first,” Sandström added.

The school has hired a dietician to oversee the rollout of the new menu and to make sure all the children, aged between one and six, are receiving adequate nutrition from the meatless diet.

Despite claiming that all reactions to the new program have so far been positive, Sandström says that he is well aware that the program could be controversial.

We want to be clear that there is nothing political about this. This is something we do because we think it will have a positive climate impact,” Sandström.

Sweden is at the forefront of imposing climate change ideology onto its population. In September, a Swedish professor suggested that people should begin to think about eating human flesh as a substitute for animal meat to combat climate change.


Edit: I forgot to add this bit that is from the past summer, this time about elders, if some of you were interested because it's already off-topic for this thread:

Swedish Social Democratic youth association demands vegetarian food as a norm at elderly residents
 
...see this coming in every European country...

And this case of a UK school was published on RT in September which might actually point to testing the agenda's implementation Europe-wide.

Better hungry than eating meat? UK school goes veg-only, no packed lunches… or freedom of choice
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The newly-opened Swan ‘free school’ in the leafy, very middle-class suburb of Summertown ( a part of North Oxford where the Lord Adonis was once an elected councillor), has a completely vegetarian canteen, where children looking for toad-in-the-hole or a piece of steak and kidney pudding at lunchtime will be very disappointed.

The school’s head teacher Ms Kay Wood, has cited “three main reasons” for the policy.

First, economy (‘it allows us to serve better quality meals for the same money’). Secondly, the ‘huge environmental and sustainability benefits,’ and three ‘it allows students of all faiths and different dietary requirements to eat together.’

Well, reasons two and three are laudatory, I admit, but even so, isn’t banning non-vegetarian food at lunchtimes and not allowing children to bring in their own lunch going a bit too far?

One mum, quoted in the Sun, says her daughter came home ‘very hungry’ and that she‘d heard “lots of other children were very hungry too.” Is making school children hungry the way to go, to build a better world? Surely there could be some sensible compromise?

Many of us could probably all do with eating a little less meat, especially less processed meat and we should do all we can to make sure that the animals we do eat are well looked after. We should go ’organic’ and opt for ’free-range’ whenever we can afford to. But enforcing vegetarianism, as some seem to desire, is another thing altogether. There’s no getting away from the fact that meat, and this is particularly relevant for those growing up and the elderly for whom anaemia may be a problem, is a valuable source of protein and other essential minerals. Here, for example are eleven benefits of eating beef.

And here’s a 2019 newspaper report citing health professional and university professor Robert Pickard, on the six top health benefits of eating lean red meat. They include the maintenance of strong bones and the boosting of our mental powers.
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It's really heartless and criminal. They are probably so brainless due to the diet, and so convinced of their righteousness, that they'll ignore all signs and override any instinct they may have had once to protect the child, if they ever had any. And it's not a new thing, there are recorded cases from way before, like this one in 2011:

So they shouldn't even be able to plead non-guilty when it is SO easy to have the information they need to know that it's a REALLY bad idea, and basically torture and murder.
 
A couple of relatives raised their children vegetarian. I don't know how strict they were and they may have allowed fish, but certainly no red meat. Both kids looked very frail growing up and if I'm not mistaken went to specialists for supplementation as they were behind the normal growing curve. They are teenagers now, the boy outwardly seems healthy enough but the girl still looks frail. The parents seem to allow them to eat what they want now, the girl eats fish but the boy doesn't eat any meat. I'm surprised by how normal he looks being raised vegetarian and still avoiding meat.
 
It's really heartless and criminal. They are probably so brainless due to the diet, and so convinced of their righteousness, that they'll ignore all signs and override any instinct they may have had once to protect the child, if they ever had any. And it's not a new thing, there are recorded cases from way before, like this one in 2011:

So they shouldn't even be able to plead non-guilty when it is SO easy to have the information they need to know that it's a REALLY bad idea, and basically torture and murder.

Just goes to show how dangerous our biases, beliefs, etc., can be. I mean even after reality hits us in the face, some of us just can't let go of faulty ways of thinking and behaving.
 
During the recent Federal election in Canada, this former actress, turned Green Party supporter moved back to her hometown here on Vancouver Island. She's' made the "Local news" a few times, attending rallies and trying to promote The Green Party.

Her latest issue is veganizing the prisons in Canada:
Pamela Anderson calls on Canadian prisons to go vegan as cost-cutting measure

In a quick search, I see she was pushing this in Australia last year, as well:
 
The biggest problem now is that everybody just "knows" that a plant-based diet is obviously healthy, and the only people who are aware otherwise are the ones who have taken that long personal journey of learning to distrust authority and mainstream BS - naturally a small minority. There is at least still a large group who have no desire to stop eating meat, but most of them seem to believe that some amount of meat is obviously bad for health, which I'll call self-hating meat eaters.

Countering the propaganda is pretty difficult because most seem to start with this premise (plant based green things being generally healthy and meat being unhealthy) and work their logic from that, so you're pretty much an alien if you challenge that premise.

With the kids being indoctrinated as well now there's very little hope of sanity coming around, and that genetic damage is only gonna accelerate.

It would be kind of OK if a large group of people collectively decided to just go eat plants and get all malnourished and leave it at that, but no. Of course they've gotta attack meat eaters at every opportunity, tax the stuff, make it harder to get hold of etc. Then you have the backlash from those who actually need meat, forming carnivore groups and bashing vegans. Hey presto, another dividing line!
 
Her latest issue is veganizing the prisons in Canada:
I remember reading sometime in the past that a prison/jail switched inmates' diet to soy-based foods - don't recall if that was Columbus or Ohio prison or somewhere else. The inmates all started getting sick and of course, hated the food. Some pertinent google links:






Besides really being cruel and unusual punishment, think of the extra expense incurred from causing so much unnecessary illness! Somebody needs to clue Pamela in! Then there's another aspect to consider - increased violence due to poor nutrition:
Diet and Violence
Does diet affect our criminal behavior?

What would you think if I told you that young people today likely committed violent, criminal acts in part due to poor nutrition. What if they continued those violent acts in prison as the poor nutrition continued? Reserve judgment for now. This is science - let's see what the data tells us. My theory is that our relatively nutrient-poor modern diets contribute to a great deal of modern psychopathology.

Over the past decade or so, several groups of researchers have done some decent work in this area, and (for once in the nutritional-type psychiatry literature) I can look at a randomized controlled trial of good size and design that was actually replicated.

Read more:
seem to believe that some amount of meat is obviously bad for health
Before I became 'woke' regarding the perpetual diet BS being shoveled to the general population on a daily basis, I bought into the claim that too much protein/red meat wasn't healthful. I increased the amount of chicken consumed - skinless/boneless chicken breasts were flooding the markets - and seriously considered the 'pack of cards' daily serving amount for red meat. Seriously, my generation absolutely had no idea we were being conned when it came to food nutrition. And now, it's all but impossible to get unaltered, uncontaminated food especially since glyphosate has been detected in rainfall and who even knows how much radiation we're getting as well. And to think, at some point in the past, all the food was naturally organic. The effects of our SAD junk nutrition is becoming evident:
Americans Face Shorter Life Span Than the Rest of Industrialized World
Factors include obesity and inefficiencies in health care system

The doctor's news is not good. Americans are in poorer health and are dying sooner than the rest of the industrialized world. Call it the "mortality gap."

The facts are disquieting. A 2011 study of 17 industrialized countries — 13 in Western Europe, plus the U.S., Australia, Japan and Canada — found that American men, whose life expectancy is 75.6 years, ranked last, and U.S. women, at 80.7 years, ranked 16th. Worse, this gap has been widening for the past three decades.

Wonder why this is happening? So did the National Institutes of Health, which ordered the Institute of Medicine to undertake a broad study of U.S. deaths involving drugs and alcohol, obesity and diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, infant mortality, injuries and homicides, and HIV and AIDS. Researchers found what they called "a pervasive pattern of shorter lives and poor health" crossing all socioeconomic lines.

Although the United States spends nearly twice as much on health care as other countries, Americans eat too much, rely on cars too much and get medical care that is often inaccessible and unaffordable {Then in fact, they are NOT getting medical care!]. More specifically, the study cited the lack of access to primary care physicians and Americans' relatively unhealthy behaviors. While Americans drink and smoke less than their peers, they eat more calories per person, use seat belts less, are more prone to gun violence and have higher rates of drug abuse. Demographic trends and next year's expansion of medical coverage will put even more pressure on the shorthanded U.S. medical workforce. Our dependence on cars gets special attention, too, for helping create neighborhoods that discourage walking and contribute to obesity.

[What a load of horse hockey! Our crappy food and psycho conventional medicine i.e. vaccines/statins/assorted highlly dangerous approved pharmaceuticals along with the officially inflicted opioid epidemic, are the real culprits!]


Guess who stopped being an AARP member due to quality info like the above! :barf:
The wonders of modern medicine and nutrition make it easy to believe we enjoy longer lives than at any time in human history, but we may not be that special after all.

Over the last few decades, life expectancy has increased dramatically around the globe. The average person born in 1960, the earliest year the United Nations began keeping global data, could expect to live to 52.5 years of age. Today, the average is 72. In the UK, where records have been kept longer, this trend is even greater. In 1841, a baby girl was expected to live to just 42 years of age, a boy to 40. In 2016, a baby girl could expect to reach 83; a boy, 79.

The natural conclusion is that both the miracles of modern medicine and public health initiatives have helped us live longer than ever before – so much so that we may, in fact, be running out of innovations to extend life further. In September 2018, the Office for National Statistics confirmed that, in the UK at least, life expectancy has stopped increasing. Beyond the UK, these gains are slowing worldwide.

This belief that our species may have reached the peak of longevity is also reinforced by some myths about our ancestors: it’s common belief that ancient Greeks or Romans would have been flabbergasted to see anyone above the age of 50 or 60, for example.
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Life expectancy is an average. If you have two children, and one dies before their first birthday but the other lives to the age of 70, their average life expectancy is 35.

That’s mathematically correct – and it certainly tells us something about the circumstances in which the children were raised. But it doesn’t give us the full picture. It also becomes especially problematic when looking at eras, or in regions, where there are high levels of infant mortality. Most of human history has been blighted by poor survival rates among children, and that continues in various countries today.
According to this year's 2018 America's Health Ranking Annual Report, the U.S. infant mortality rate is 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live infant births, while the average rate of infant mortality among the OECD countries is 3.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. (Vaccines anyone? And how about that soy formula!)
According to UNICEF, Japan is the safest place on earth for infants as it has the lowest mortality rate of 1 out of every 1,111 births.
APRIL 23, 2019

Japan Leads the Way: No Vaccine Mandates and No MMR Vaccine = Healthier Children
And who doesn't think their food is way more nutritious than the typical Standard American Diet.
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In the 1st Century, Pliny devoted an entire chapter of The Natural History to people who lived longest. Among them he lists the consul M Valerius Corvinos (100 years), Cicero’s wife Terentia (103), a woman named Clodia (115 – and who had 15 children along the way), and the actress Lucceia who performed on stage at 100 years old.
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The median of those who died between 1850 and 1949? Seventy-one years old – just one year less than their pre-100BC cohort.

[...]All we can really take away from this is that privileged, accomplished men have, on average, lived to about the same age throughout history – as long as they weren’t killed first, that is.

"in the UK at least, life expectancy has stopped increasing"
Well, you know, if you're getting stabbed, sliced with a machete, or run over by a car/truck by immigrant terrorists . . .

And, as should be clearly known by anyone with half a brain, good sanitation makes a huge difference in regards to life expectancy. The deteriorating sanitary conditions in San Francisco, Chicago, and elsewhere do not bode well at all.

My paternal grandfather lived to 100 and my maternal grandfather lived to 92. My father died just shy of 78, my brother at 71, and my sister-in-law's husband at 58. Sensing a pattern here? My mother made it to 88, but I seriously doubt I'll have the same outcome.
 
As I mentioned in a previous post, before I became 'woke' regarding what really constituted healthy food, I was totally taken in by all the official food propaganda. Huge among the lies was the healthiness of canola oil. I bought that one hook, line, and sinker! In time, I learned it's an oil not even fit for human consumption! And yet, when I go to supposedly 'healthy food stores', item after item contains canola oil! I have to laugh as to how many patrons think that they are purchasing really healthy food and it so isn't!

An excellent article on this horrid, actually brain damaging oil:
Ambushed by canola oil – that toxic “food stuff” that’s found in nearly everything processed these days

Evil corporations feed Americans like we’re all just rats in a big cage. How stupid we all are, they think. Even the so-called “healthy” stores are taking advantage of consumer ignorance. Big time. Just take a glance at the ingredients in the majority of processed foods at Whole Foods, Wegman’s, and Trader Joe’s, and you will see the most popular ingredient that’s responsible for clogging arteries, contributing to weight gain, and causing early onset dementia. It’s the margarine of yesteryear, and nobody seems to be calling it out for what it is. Canola oil is deadly (even though it takes a while to kill you), and meanwhile, you have no motivation, you suffer brain fog daily, and you just keep gaining weight. Guess what, it’s not your diet, it’s canola oil. You’ve been ambushed.

Calling on Food Babe to get even more involved in this. You are the Queen of getting the “big guns” to do the “right thing.” Everybody should get involved in this canola boycott. Canola oil is “processed to death” – as the Food Babe Vani Hari describes it. If consumers don’t step up to the plate and realize what’s happening, the masses will start dying off from canola poisoning, and every M.D. will blame genetics and continue pushing pills that do nothing but exacerbate the problems.

When it comes to cooking oils and preservatives, canola is the most widely consumed food toxin in the world, and nobody seems to know it. A new study published online by researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and published in Scientific Reports, associated canola consumption with weight gain, restricted learning ability and worsened memory. That’s some cheap brain damage. We’re talking about early onset dementia here. Want some?

All the advertising in the world about canola being healthy comes with zero scientific proof to back it up. It’s all been a hoax for decades, and Big Food has gotten away with murder, literally. In fact, canola oil creates amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain that are the signature causes of Alzheimer’s disease and strokes.

You see, according to the scientists that conducted the study on mice, canola oil depletes and destroys the buffer in your brain (amyloid beta 1-40) that protects you against amyloid plaques. That prevents your brain neurons and synapses from functioning properly, leading to loss of memory and neuronal damage.

Scientists use genetic engineering to insert DNA from poisonous plants and insects into the seeds of canola to kill bugs and weeds that eat and choke out the plants and their roots in the harvesting fields. That’s what GMO means, in a nutshell. Pesticides on the inside and out. So every time you eat canola oil, you’re getting a double dose of poison. It’s caked with insecticide and chemical herbicide inside and out, and it causes plaques to form in your blood and brain. Even if it’s organic, it still causes plaques in the brain. Remember that.

This is why Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Wegman’s push canola oil so hard. They are not really stores that want people to eat healthy, they just use that as a marketing platform, since “farm to table” has now become a billion dollar market. These big food guns know good and well that canola oil is toxic to human health, but they don’t care, and they know hardly anyone knows the truth. Spread the message. Stop buying it. Stop eating it. Be aware that most restaurants use it.

Check just about any processed or packaged foods at the three “health food” store conglomerates and you’ll find blood-clogging canola. They put this toxic, cheap “food stuff” in just about everything at the prepared food bars (think potato salad, egg salad, pasta salad, hummus, chicken salad), and now you’ll even find it in coffee creamers and hundreds of organic products up and down the “healthy” aisles. For Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Wegman’s, it’s all about the money, not their consumers’ health.


Tune in to FoodSupply.news for updates on Big Food and these so-called “healthy” markets selling your health up the river with cheap, bug-killing oil. Canola, canola, everywhere… canola. Are you wondering why they all use so much of it now? Do you still eat canola oil daily? You better check right now before you forget how to even feed yourself.

 
For the record, here's the latest piece published on SOTT. Becoming too hard to follow and comprehend... 😢

Florida vegan parents charged with manslaughter after toddler dies of malnutrition
Chris Kitching
Mirror, 15 Nov 2019
A vegan couple's toddler died of malnutrition while they fed him almost nothing but raw fruit and vegetables, say police.

The 18-month-old boy weighed only 17lbs when he died in the care of his parents Ryan and Sheila O'Leary on September 27, according to police.

Sheila, 35, told police the boy was born at home, had never seen a doctor before and was fed a diet of raw fruit and vegetables, including mangoes, rambutans, bananas and avocados.

When he died, she said, he hadn't eaten food in a week - she thought it was because he was teething - and he was being breastfed.

The O'Learys have been charged with negligent manslaughter and child neglect.

Police said stay-at-home mum Sheila told a detective she was breastfeeding her son at about 4am when he began to have shallow breathing.

She was worried because it was the first time it had happened, but said she didn't call for help because she fell asleep.

He was pronounced dead at the family home in Cape Coral, Florida, after his mum woke up and noticed he wasn't breathing and was cold.

She dialled 911 as her 30-year-old husband tried to resuscitate the boy, police wrote in an affidavit obtained by the Fort Myers News-Press.

The boy's death was caused by complications of malnutrition, including dehydration, liver problems and swelling of his hands, feet and lower legs, a post-mortem found.

Sheila told police her son's feet had been swollen off and on for weeks and he wasn't walking as much as he had been previously.

Police said the boy weighed just 17lbs, the average weight of a seven-month-old.

The average weight for an 18-month-old is 24lbs 1oz.
 
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