Lou
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I was just using bread as a simple comparison
Babies have been malnourished on omnivore diets forever, and it's always been called neglect. Giving a baby an inadequate vegan diet is also neglect,.
Not all the omnivores giving their babies a inadequate diet do it out of malice--and if you're vegan and not researching nutrition it should be called neglect
In the French case, the parents were charged with neglect. And although the vegan diet was a contributing cause the I think the real issue was when the parents disregarded the physician's order to take the baby to the hospital.
I think the underlying issue was that the mom was B12 deficient, therefore her breast milk was B12 deficient. and you don't have to be a vegan to be deficient in B12.