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Vegan parents guilty in infant murder
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6-week-old died of starvation after being fed diet of soy milk, apple juice
By BETH WARREN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/02/07
The parents of a baby that died of starvation after being fed a vegan diet have been found guilty of malice murder, felony murder and first degree cruelty to children.
Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, will get an automatic life sentence for the death of their 6-week-old infant, Crown. After being fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice, he weighed only 3 1/2 pounds when he died.
The Fulton County jury deliberated the case for about seven hours.
Prosecutors said it was a chilling case of murder by starvation, a painful and prolonged death. Attorneys representing Sanders and Thomas told jurors the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to their vegan lifestyle. Vegans typically live free of animal products.
"They're not vegans, they're baby killers," Fulton prosecutor Mike Carlson told the jury Tuesday during his closing arguments.
The couple's attorneys said they didn't realize their baby, born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died.
This has nothing to do with a vegan diet. A child can live on a vegan diet if fed properly. Those parents didn't know what they were doing. And why didn't they just breast feed the child? It's like feeding a infant cows milk. Not even that has everything a baby needs.No wonder it died.. Besides, if you don't want to breast feed your child you should replace the milk with a milk replacer, or in a vegans case, with Soy formula milk. It even says on the soy package that it should NOT be used as an infant formula.
So again, blaming it on the fact that the parents were vegans isn't right. There are a lot healthy vegan babies out there. As well as there are a lot of unhealthy animal product eating babies out there. It's all about how careful the parents are;)
If your baby is on soy and it's crying all the time.. it's probably because it's stomach hurts like hell!
Every food has its good and bad sides. It's like saying that babies who eat what we call a ''normal diet'' never have any stomach aches.
I think you need to look into soy more. The stuff shouldn't even be approved by the FDA, and it was removed from the market in China at one time. It was only brought back because fermenting it made it somewhat safer. Most of the soy products in the USA aren't fermented. -Read into it!
If your baby is on soy and it's crying all the time.. it's probably because it's stomach hurts like hell!
Every food has its good and bad sides. It's like saying that babies who eat what we call a ''normal diet'' never have any stomach aches.
I think you need to look into soy more. The stuff shouldn't even be approved by the FDA, and it was removed from the market in China at one time. It was only brought back because fermenting it made it somewhat safer. Most of the soy products in the USA aren't fermented. -Read into it!
Maybe so, but most products in the USA aren't safe.. Not just animal products like meat and milk, but also vegetables and fruits. If it isn't hormones or antibiotics they add, its chemicals. Compared to other countries the states aren't too strickt with the food they produce and give out to the public. So soy isn't the only ''meany''.
