Vegan babies and children

[popsycal]

Anyone got any opinions or experience of this?

thanks zebra!
have printed the second link for myself!!!

The other thing (sorry, Popsycal, but was thinking about this while swimming)... is the type of fats babies have. Most of the so-called experts say that baby/toddler brains need essential fatty acids, saturated fats, cholesterol... how to get those in a vegan diet if not breastfed? I'm sure your niece will grow up to be a lovely girl without, but it may not be to her advantage. Vegans have a good argument that humans don't "need" to drink milk from other mammals, but probably human babies need the types of fats found in human milk until 3-4yo, and if they aren't getting it, other mammal milk is a close substitute, but if they aren't even getting the substitute...?

Maybe the vegans have an answer to all that.

i would love to hear the opinions of other vegans...thanks zebra for thinking about me!

bobthe baby- if you're worried about antibiotics etc stick to lamb- you can't really intensively rear lamb so its the most unadulterated iyswim. I'm not sure how much of a problem antib's in meat is in NZ- it the States that's the worse!

Btb, what you describe is a fruitarian (or raw food) diet, often confused with veganism - particularly in the media. A fruitarian diet consists of raw fruit and seeds only. It is not suitable for children - anyone who follows this diet sensibly should be aware of that.

Here is an article from the vegan society about vegan diets for children.

HTH