Parents who force vegan diets on their kids face jail time under new Italian law

thunder_chunky

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For once the Italians get something right.

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Lol

Dramatic but I can see why they're concerned, growing children with active lifestyles in this day and age... unless their parents were so very careful and almost made feeding their children a full time job, they could quite conceivably struggle to make up all their dietry requirements from a purely vegan diet.

Reply 3

Kendrik Lamar

PERFECT. Should extend to religion and bedtime as well

Reply 4

ManiaMuse

Lol, brilliant.

I used to have a good vegan friend (until she stopped talking to me suddenly one day for no apparent reason, I still don't know why). I went traveling with her for a couple of months, it was a right pain in the arse finding places where she could eat (gluten free as well lol...). I lost loads of weight and was quite unwell once I got back home and I'm a skinny wrench of a guy to begin with (5'6" about 135lbs usually) Think she was brought up vegetarian but she went vegan a couple of years ago and turned militant vegan super quick. Had to block her on Facebook because her daily vegan posts were getting super annoying, it's a proper cult.

Shame they can't ban teaching religion to chidlen either...

Reply 5

QE2

Yep.

Same should apply to a diet made up exclusively of Frozen Things in breadcrumbs from Farmfoods, Haribo and full fat Coke.

Reply 6

MrsSheldonCooper

I normally respect vegans (who aren't militant) because I tried going vegan and it failed miserably. Parents forcing their kids into vegan diets is terrible though. Some people will go through it and others won't.

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skeptical_john

Original post by thunder_chunky

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For once the Italians get something right.

I don't know if you - or anyone else on this thread for that matter - have managed to read past the headline but it says 'inadequate diet' any diet can be inadequate vegan or otherwise.

Reply 8

MrsSheldonCooper

Original post by ManiaMuse

I can relate! I've been vegetarian for about 7 years now and I don't plan to change that. My vegan friend however kept giving me evil stares whenever I drank milk in front of her or ate a burger with cheese inside it. I honestly don't know why but I always got the impression she was hungry because literally every time I saw her eating it would be just salads.

No problems with vegans whatsoever. Can't stand the ones like my mate above though.

Reply 9

FadedFlower

Rome is the mother of all Evils

Reply 10

loveleest

I love Italians for this.

Reply 11

loveleest

Original post by ManiaMuse

They should ban forcing religion onto your children.

Good!

good
**** vegans

Original post by skeptical_john

I don't know if you - or anyone else on this thread for that matter - have managed to read past the headline but it says 'inadequate diet' any diet can be inadequate vegan or otherwise.

A vegan diet is an inadequate diet. Vegans are inadequate people.

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pandaseattoast

Why all the hate? You can be malnourished and unhealthy as a vegan or a non vegan.
Most children would follow a similar diet to their parents when they're growing up, it's not about being forced. It could also be said parents are forcing their children to eat processed and cancerous foods.

Reply 16

pandaseattoast

Original post by ManiaMuse

Vegans don't have souls.

Explain or i'll just disregard this as a silly and troll comment

Reply 17

ZeroFree

Original post by thunder_chunky

A vegan diet is an inadequate diet. Vegans are inadequate people.

Why, on both of those points?

A diet is inadequate if it does not provide the body with the vitamins, proteins, etc, that it needs.

What makes vegans inadequate people?

Reply 18

ManiaMuse

Original post by pandaseattoast

Explain or i'll just disregard this as a silly and troll comment

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Reply 19

viddy9

Original post by thunder_chunky

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For once the Italians get something right.

This is merely a proposed law, it's not at all clear whether it will actually pass.

Nutritionally illiterate parents - whether they are vegan or not - are of course going to do harm to their children. Not only is this proposed law unenforceable, it's also ridiculous on medical grounds. As the American Dietetic Association has stated:

appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

There are plenty of people who have raised perfectly healthy vegan children. The problem, as I say, is nutritional illiteracy. Ironically, those who claim that vegan diets are nutritionally inadequate are themselves being scientifically illiterate.