Moments of Permanence - April 2nd, 2011

About April 2nd, 2011

Hm. 09:15 am
I know it's not worth engaging with the patently stupid and/or insane, but...

Having come across the story of a "strict vegan" couple who were arrested for murder (and convicted) after their baby son, fed on apple juice and soy milk (and apparently far too little), died of starvation, I can't help but want to ask why didn't you morons breast feed him?

Opposition to "animal cruelty" is one thing but if you think that applies to a breastfeeding mother you are doing it wrong.

And if you think that a newborn baby can survive on soy milk and apple juice, you are too stupid to deserve to live, but the same does not apply to your child, so if you can't breastfeed - some people can't, after all - you really need, in some fashion, to suck it up. If you're so desperately attached to your anti-animal-cruelty principles, get your own damn nanny goat and treat her with loving care, or something, or just put your baby up for adoption because you are not fit parents.

I'm not a vegan, or even a vegetarian, but I am opposed to animal cruelty.

I'm also not a parent, but I have known a number of babies, who became children (and a couple of whom are now grown men, the thought of which freaks me out), who I loved and love.

And you know what? Because, apart from anything else, I am more-or-less a properly evolved representative of my species, I'm pretty sure I would personally torture a poor innocent animal if it was that or see one of those babies starve. Fortunately, that's not ever freaking necessary. Of course, with adequate time to prepare for some such situation, I would also be completely willing to take appropriate hormone treatments to trigger my own mammaries to start lactating, because pretty much every human being has the capacity to produce a complete and sufficient diet for a newborn baby. (Yes. Men too.)

I just... gah. If an adult is going to be stupid enough to undertake a vegan diet without doing the research necessary to establish how to be a vegan and not die of malnutrition, that's their own fault, but babies cannot live on a diet free of animal products. Which is not required to be immoral unless you're a fucking moron because the animal doing the producing can be a human.

PEOPLE ARE STUPID.
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