What do you think?

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the zucchini pie recipe.

 

How would one respond to something like this. I found

it most disturbing. I find it kind of puts a bad name

for those who are wanting to be vegetarians. I just

hope it won't ruin anyone's day. Keep looking up.

 

Vegan Couple Starved Toddler, Cops Say

 

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

 

A Vegan couple in New York City were busted for

starving their baby daughter — by denying her breast

milk and formula, feeding her only nuts, fruits and

vegetables, and allegedly failing to get her medical

help for severe malnutrition.

 

Joseph and Silva Swinton, both 31, were arrested

Friday and charged with reckless endangerment and

endangering the welfare of a child for failing to

properly feed and care for their baby, Ice.

 

The Swintons, who are being held in lieu of $20,000

bail, face up to seven years in prison if convicted.

 

Sixteen-month-old Ice Swinton weighed only 10 pounds,

looked like a 2- or 3-month-old and was half the

normal weight of a child her age when authorities

discovered her close to death last November.

 

EMS workers rushed Ice to from her Queens home to Long

Island Jewish Hospital, where doctors diagnosed her

with developmental problems, a distended abdomen,

fractured bones, a vitamin deficiency called rickets

and a lung disorder — all caused by malnutrition,

authorities said.

 

The Swintons, who say they approach veganism as a

religion, fed the child a diet of " ground nuts,

fresh-squeezed fruit juices, herbal tea, beans, cod

liver oil and flax seed oil, " a complaint said.

 

Even when doctors told the couple their baby was on

the brink of death in November, both parents insisted

" there was nothing wrong " and were resistant to

treatment, the complaint said.

 

After a four-month hospital stay, the New York City

Administration for Children's Services placed the baby

in a foster home.

 

Several months on a healthy diet have helped the

20-month-old to achieve the functions of a 10- to

12-month-old baby, but the child is still struggling,

authorities said.

 

Warren Silverman, a lawyer representing the mother,

questioned why there was such a long delay to file

charges.

 

" If Long Island Jewish Hospital at that time thought

that something was amiss, why wasn't something done

right away? " he asked.

 

The Swintons have been allowed supervised visits with

their daughter — but ACS has asked that a judge order

them stopped after the father said he thought the

child was getting " chubby, " sources said.

 

Neighbor Toyin Savage said she was " shocked. "

 

Another neighbor said she saw the baby recently.

 

" I asked how old she was and they said, 'Almost a

year.' She looked very small. They said she was a

vegetarian — I didn't think about it at the time. "

 

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[Guest guest]

- >

> How would one respond to something like this. I found

> it most disturbing. I find it kind of puts a bad name

> for those who are wanting to be vegetarians. I just

> hope it won't ruin anyone's day. Keep looking up.

 

I've seen this story before. To quote someone on another vegetarian list I

belong to when this story first came up, " They obviously need to be neutered

because they aren't fit to be parents. "

 

To which I agree wholeheartedly.

 

Megan

[Guest guest]

I don't appreciate the slant of the article, which shows prejudice

on the part of the author, IMHO. Malnutrition is malnutrition, and

plenty of meat eaters have had malnutrition, right? The article

infers that no baby can be healthy if raised vegan. Where's the

studies on that?

 

Melinda

[Guest guest]

, " Melinda " <clicker@i...> wrote:

> I don't appreciate the slant of the article, which shows prejudice

> on the part of the author, IMHO. Malnutrition is malnutrition, and

> plenty of meat eaters have had malnutrition, right? The article

> infers that no baby can be healthy if raised vegan. Where's the

> studies on that?

>

> Melinda

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That's a good point, Melinda. I think it was slanted to show " vegans " in a

negative light; so radical, so fringe...somethng to be mistrusted and feared.

We all know this is boggus. Vegans and other vegetarians don't starve their

kids, bad parents do. Unfortunately for the children, bad parents can be

found in all walks of life. Anytime a parent puts their beliefs and convictions

before the welfare of their child, bad will come of it. This is sad.

 

~ P_T ~

/

 

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need

one!

--Barbara Holland

[Guest guest]

I agree. Abuse is abuse in any form.

 

But if you want to take that article a little further, then it looks

like vegans aren't in their right mind, don't have good judgement,

and are likely child abusers. The parents of the child deserved to

lose their baby....... and the author of the article deserves a

smack upside the head with some EDUCATION.

 

Melinda

 

 

> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

>

> That's a good point, Melinda. I think it was slanted to

show " vegans " in a

> negative light; so radical, so fringe...somethng to be mistrusted

and feared.

> We all know this is boggus. Vegans and other vegetarians don't

starve their

> kids, bad parents do. Unfortunately for the children, bad parents

can be

> found in all walks of life. Anytime a parent puts their beliefs

and convictions

> before the welfare of their child, bad will come of it. This is

sad.

>

> ~ P_T ~

> /

>

> There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they

don't need

> one!

> --Barbara Holland