I agree, and wish to add that if you have pets you need to feed them what they actually need, not what you philosophize about....

Extremes are dangerous in everything...be it religion, politics, nationalism, or diets. When it comes to inflicting these extreme food ideas on infants it becomes not just dangerous but criminal. My mother who lived to her mid nineties had a simple philosophy....moderation in all things. She applied this pretty universally to every activity, but especially to food and drink.. She never cut anything out, but enjoyed meat ....and alcohol, in moderation. This is a philosophy I have now adopted, although I will admit in my younger days I was more prone to excess in both!

They should have been jailed much longer for child abuse and endangerment that child is permanently. If you are not well educated in how to go meatless children die or end up permanently damaged. As a adult go ahead and kill yourself but leave kids alone. You need knowledge to be vegan unless you grew up that way, Balancing amino acids to get complete proteins it's not easy unless you grew up doing that

LAMBNESIA Not eating meat is totally UNaustralian ... But the shit our butchers sell locally is barred from being exported to Europe. So the beasts supplying the meat are not allowed to cohabit. [agriculture.gov.au]

It's an Australian story. In Australia if you don't like dog, you are a heretic. If you don't drink beer, you are mad. If you don't eat meat, you are a traitor.

And if there other children were healthy on a vegan diet there was something else going on here.

I am almost completely vegan. Or I should say whole food plant based. It can be perfectly healthy but I am not sure I would do it with a child. There are ways to do it safely but it takes a lot of work with children to do that.

That headline is misleading. There around 500M Buddhists, many among them vegan, who live long healthy lives. Our being omnivorous means we may eat meat, not that we must. Moreover, even herbivores sometimes eat meat, and carnivorous sometimes eat vegetables.

I am having philosophical problems with eating meat. I eat very small portions but I wish I could quit. Beef takes a lot of resources. I try not to eat mammals. That's a start. It's not good for our health or the planet. Substitute?

I agree, I fear that there will be a lot of malnourished children in the future because of the current fad for veganism. We all need a balanced diet, especially children and it’s a parent’s duty to provide one until they are old enough to decide for themselves whether to become vegan.