[net.veg] Vegetarian Babies

jgb@linus.UUCP (Jonathan G. Bressel) (05/19/86)

Does anyone know of good books on how to raise children on vegetarian
diets?  I'm particulary interested in vegan diets, but will settle for
vegetarian as well.

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jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (05/20/86)

> Does anyone know of good books on how to raise children on vegetarian
> diets?  I'm particulary interested in vegan diets, but will settle for
> vegetarian as well.
> 

	I guess that a vegan diet for babies would exclude mother's milk -
after all, that's an animal product, right ? If a vegan mother does nurse
he child, will she have problem related to the fact that many desirable
foods for her (like broccoli, for example) can cause the baby gastic distress.

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dyer@vaxuum.dec.com (05/23/86)

Re: Vegetarian Babies_____________________________________________________

	> I guess that a vegan diet for babies would exclude mother's milk
	> - after all, that's an animal product, right?

	    This implies that veganism is mindless dogma.  Wrongo.  One
	follows a vegan diet for specific reasons, and none of these rea-
	sons apply to mother's milk.  (I can only think of one objection
	to mother's milk along vegan lines, and that has to do with the
	buildup of pollutants in the milk.  Of course, a vegan mother will
	have the lowest levels of the pollutants in her milk.)
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