Vegan parents get life for starving their son


	Vegan parents get life for starving their son

Antara

7-18-2009 12:18 PM

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vegans, child abuse, nutrition, ignorance

Antara says:

very sad.

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7-18-2009 12:26 PM

wiccantexan

How people so supposedly focused on not harming living creatures can be so blind as to what is happening to their own child, right in front of their eyes.

7-18-2009 12:31 PM

Antara

I know, that's what made this case all the more bizarre.

7-18-2009 12:48 PM

Spiritualmonkey

There's vegan baby formula available. These people were just deadly stupid.

I know more than a few vegan parents, and none of them have starved their children to death. There are millions of people in India who pull this trick off all the time. This isn't some sort of herculean task that mere mortals can't achieve.

A real tragedy.

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