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[frandroid]

Vegan parents jailed for baby's death by malnutrition

This is a stupid way to die. It even says on many brands of soy milk that it cannot replace baby formula. Now vegan parents are going to be labelled cruel parents.

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[culpster.livejournal.com]

Gad, the article certainly doesn't help with the stigma thing...Vegan Parents Bad! (as opposed to: Some Vegans Stupid!)

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

To be fair, as I saw on Google News, many of the newspapers who reprinted this story removed the last paragraph (The Star for example).

[(Anonymous)]

The pyramid strikes again.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Care to explain?

[(Anonymous)]

The journalistic inverted pyramid - if you want to be sure it stays in the story, put it way up top.

It's Jonathan btw I forgot to log in.

[konami.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with using your own dairy products? XD

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Many women can't lactate properly. I hope that's why she wasn't breastfeeding.

[konami.livejournal.com]

Yeh I'd hope so too but it seems to me this couple was just stupid.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I saw this earlier and was thinking about mocking it. But then I read it and these folks are so obviously outliers, and the story so sad, that I couldn't.

but a big WTF to this sentence: Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans. Is that the stupidest argument ever? Makes me actually want to read the transcript to see if they actually did it or if it was just bad reporting. Clearly I have nothing invested in veganism, but even I know it's a statement containing absolutely no truth.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I guess they couldn't afford a good lawyer. :P

[digitalchicana.livejournal.com]

just seeing this. geez, that's crazy awful.