To wonder who eats this food and why?

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https://groceries.asda.com/product/plant-based-meat-alternatives/plant-based-by-asda-chicken-style-fillets/1000383161908

Plant-based chicken-style breaded fillet. The main two ingredients are water and oil!

I don't understand the boom in plant-based ultra-processed foods...........do people actually buy these as a healthy option? And if you are vegetarian why would you want something that looked like meat?

According to your source:

"the details of those deaths are not publicly known and it is unclear if they were directly related to the children's diet."

www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/nyregion/couple-guilty-of-assault-in-vegan-case.html

So Belgium, Australia, N, and also Italy

Some have specific laws, , thers come under child protection neglect or criminal assault laws.

Reading those stories, the veganism was the least of it. They didn't die because of a vegan diet, they died because of an inadequate diet with insufficient food and the parents were negligent in other respects too e.g no healthcare.

You can't say on here, even though it's obvious. Even though many babies die from being forced to be vegan.

There's a vegan mums facebook group where so many mums will post that their kid's teeth are crumbling and ask could it be because the diet? And the answer echoed in unison is absolutely not. Deluded and neglectful.

Yes and the extreme belief of veganism goes hand in hand with this.

the details of those deaths are not publicly known and it is unclear if they were directly related to the children's diet."

And yes, you seem to have missed that part too.

70% of people in the world must be in serious ill health if dairy is essential.

70% of people in the world are lactose tolerant.

Thanks @habbiespond sense at last.

Where have you got your facts for your post from?

As they are wrong.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/01/florida-vegan-mom-starved-son-to-death-with-vegetables-fruits-diet-16929567/

No problem, now let's duck for cover 😂

https://protecttheharvest.com/news/parents-beware-vegan-diets-are-not-suitable-for-children/

Fuck me. You can't even read the articles that you've linked to. Perhaps all that meat is killing your remaining brain cells hence why you feel faint after not eating meat for a whole 24 hours. Again the problem with these cases is not the vegan part but an inadequate diet with insufficient food. It's perfectly possible to have a carefully balanced healthy vegan diet that will nourish you.

Protect The Harvest. Yet that seems like a totally unbiased, balanced and reliable source of information.

https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/life-stages/under-fives

Just to counter the opinion piece from the "Protect the Harvest" website...

@Boomboom22 you are aware in the UK that the NHS recommends that you supplement your child's diet with vitamins from birth?

So if you are breast feeding you are encouraged to supplement with vitamin D. If you are formula feeding you don't need to supplement as formula is fortified vitamins and minerals.

Then once the child is over 1 until they are 5 you are encouraged to give them a daily multi-vitamin. In fact some poorer households are given help to get the multi-vitamins.

This means the extreme diets you are alluded to and posted about aren't likely to happen in the UK by parents following NHS guidelines.

Without that label I would have assumed it contained cream. Tomato soup usually does.

I find meat replica/vegan/plant based supermarket food to be a mixed bag. Some are OK e.g. Quorn escalopes, Flavourists (no)meatball kit but some aren't. It's not just the taste it's the texture. I want to cut down on meat and sometimes want speed and convenience so I will use these types of food now and then. I was hoping for more recommendations on this thread!

No.
Most vegetarians are opposed to the basic concept of eating meat.

The poster is also unaware of NHS guidelines around the UK telling parents to give their children under 5 daily vitamins.

Also we needs herding and grazing animals for soil health or those vegans wouldn't have anything to eat. If we were all vegetarian how would we maintain the soil? Honestly it's all ideological with little real world holistic thinking.

Could you attach the article about the children who have died from eating fake meat please

I read the ingredients as I don't want people in my household running to the toilet 💩or lying moaning about feeling sick for hours.

@Boomboom22 has posted loads of links. In the links all the parents have fed their children inadequate diets.

This an article I quickly googled about lactose intolerance it gives the figures at 68%
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/definition-facts

Plant based is being put on loads of products in order to market them to the widest possible number of consumers.
Its about making money