Killer Hippies Convicted of Murder

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A couple in Georgia, Lamont Thomas and Jade Sanders, were sentenced to life in prison after their 6-week-old son, Crown Shakur, died from malnutrition, weighing only 3.5 pounds. The parents primarily fed him soy milk and apple juice, neglecting his nutritional needs. Defense attorneys argued that the couple did not realize the danger their son was in until shortly before his death. The prosecution, however, emphasized that the child died due to intentional neglect rather than their vegan lifestyle, stating that the couple attempted to use their dietary choices as a defense against prosecution. The case sparked a debate about the responsibilities of vegan parents and the implications of adhering strictly to dietary ideologies without proper nutritional knowledge. Many participants in the discussion criticized the parents for their ignorance and lack of care, asserting that proper child-rearing requires informed decision-making, regardless of dietary beliefs.
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lunarmansion said:
The baby died from neglect- in this case malnutrition. Just happened that the parents were vegans.
As for the vegan movement, I think the vegan movement was originally started by and supported by many of those people who are highly lactose intolerant genetically and genetically prone to be also wheat intolerant. So one can pretty much sense who started the nonsense...like much other nonsense. Just because some people are milk intolerant and wheat intolerant, they claim that dairy and wheat products are bad for everyone.

Yeah, that is IF it originally came from highly lactose intolerant and wheat intolerant people. I doubt this is the case.
 
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  • #32
It is more important that a vegan breastfeed a baby than a nonvegan because there are no fully nutritional vegan formulas.

http://www.vegfamily.com/babies-and-toddlers/breastfeeding-vegan-baby.htm"

Most of you probably know how important it is to breastfeed your baby, but it's even more important when you're vegan. As of this writing there are no commercial soy infant formulas on the U.S. market that are 100% vegan. They all contain Vitamin D derived from an animal. And cow's milk formulas are out for obvious reasons. What does that leave you with? Not much choice. If you want your baby to be vegan, you've got to breastfeed or find a milk bank that has collected and stored milk from a vegan mom (difficult at best).
 
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  • #33
mbrmbrg said:
From what I've heard, there's a reason that serious books have been written on "the art of breast-feeding"
That speaks to ignorance, not lack of intelligence. The practice not only predates books, it predates humans.
 
  • #34
It never ceases to amaze me that you need a license to drive, a permit to build a shed on your own property, a dog or cat license, but any moron who wants one, or accidently gets pregnant, can have a kid.
 
  • #35
Vegetarianism/Veganism is all stupid IMO. If you don't want to eat it for health resons, I can understand. But if you think your saving the animals and all that other BS your an idiot.

Im glad they got sent to prison for their stupidity.
 
  • #36
Smurf said:
That's absurd, there was no rigid dogma, they were just bloody vegans that, personal intelligence aside, made the mistake of not asking a nutritionist about proper vegan childhood nutrition.

What are you talking about "clinging", "inflexably", I saw no evidence of that in the article. Do you have another source for this story your not sharing with us?

Hey Look! It's the very next paragraph in the article AFTER above quote:



oh no! :eek:

Reading the whole article is good.
Hmm... I think you misunderstood me, but then again I was not too clear with my point. Here's my reasoning. My assumption is the following: The parents are idiots yet they really were unaware of the damage they were doing until it was too late. This leads me to believe that they were enveloped in a rigid set of rules (I dunno, they read a book maybe, about the greatness of soy) and if they were following these rules then there must not be any problem because they were following the rules.

I do not think they should even be called vegans for that matter, because that word implies a deeper knowledge of nutritian.

And I usually do read articles to their fullest extent. I'd appreciate being given the benefit of that doubt even if my point is poorly formed in haste:wink:
 
  • #37
cyrusabdollahi said:
Vegetarianism/Veganism is all stupid IMO.
I'm a meatatarian myself, but there is a cost for living so high on the food chain. Does anyone here care to work out the implications of meat eating on global warming? All those animals blowing C02 into the atmosphere. Would you cut down on or cut out meat eating to save the environment if it could be shown that there was a connection?
 
  • #38
cyrusabdollahi said:
Vegetarianism/Veganism is all stupid IMO. If you don't want to eat it for health resons, I can understand. But if you think your saving the animals and all that other BS your an idiot.

Im glad they got sent to prison for their stupidity.
It's the neglect, more than the stupidity, that bothers me. I certain that parents of much lower intelligence can raise a child better than that. This is the "rigidity" that I referred to before: a parent has to willfully ignore dozens of warning signs befroe a child is that foregone. This goes beyond stupidity. If a parent has any love for their child at all, then this willfull neglect has to be fueled by some errant, dogmatic structure.

Again, for the record, I have no beef against veganism (sorry). I maintain that these people subscribed to some fringe crackpot variation of a meatless diet.
 
  • #39
jimmysnyder said:
That speaks to ignorance, not lack of intelligence. The practice not only predates books, it predates humans.

Either way, it's something that women don't just "know how to do".
 
  • #40
jimmysnyder said:
I'm a meatatarian myself, but there is a cost for living so high on the food chain. Does anyone here care to work out the implications of meat eating on global warming? All those animals blowing C02 into the atmosphere. Would you cut down on or cut out meat eating to save the environment if it could be shown that there was a connection?

No. I eat animals because they are tasty I am top of the food chain, sucks for the ones on the bottom, that's life.
 
  • #41
mbrmbrg said:
Either way, it's something that women don't just "know how to do".
There are billions of women. How many such books?
 
  • #42
Chi Meson said:
Again, for the record, I have no beef against veganism (sorry). I maintain that these people subscribed to some fringe crackpot variation of a meatless diet.

I think they are just as foolish as someone that goes to chuch (mosque, synagog, tack your pick) every sunday, and shakes when god talks to them. :bugeye:

Edit: Women now need books on breastfeeding? :smile: Give me a break.
 
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  • #43
cyrusabdollahi said:
I am top of the food chain, sucks for the ones on the bottom, that's life.
No question, but what about the implications for global warming?
 
  • #44
Dear god, your right! All those stupid farting cows are warming the ozone. We should kill them all! :smile:


...farting anmials aint warming up the globe. Its the farting animals driving SUVs we got to eliminate.
 
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  • #45
mbrmbrg said:
Either way, it's something that women don't just "know how to do".
Uhm, yes they do. The books are a scam to make money. I never read a book and I had no trouble. it doesn't take too long to realize which end of the kid to hold to your breast, trust me, the kid takes over instantly.
 
  • #46
cyrusabdollahi said:
Its the farting animals driving SUVs we got to eliminate.
You are high on the food chain. That doesn't just mean that you eat things that don't eat you. It also means that the things you eat eat other things. It takes a lot of grain to feed the cattle. The grain is created with tractors. It's not just you and the cow, its an ecosystem. I ask again. Would you give up or cut back on eating meat if it could be shown that there was a connection between meat eating and global warming?
 
  • #47
Nope, because there is no connection. Thats really a far stretch. The fact is, we use far more chemicals on growing plants than on animals. All that plant runoff goes right into the water systems.
 
  • #48
cyrusabdollahi said:
Nope, because there is no connection. Thats really a far stretch. The fact is, we use far more chemicals on growing plants than on animals. All that plant runoff goes right into the water systems.
And the cows eat it. And you eat the cow. If we ate less meat, we would grow less grain. We are high on the food chain.
 
  • #49
The vast majority of plantfoods grown around the world go to feeding people and not animals. There are 9 billion people, not 9 billion cows.

Sure, the cows require a lot of plant food, but then again you would have to grow that much plant food to replace the lost food by not eating the cow anyways. Either way, you're going to grow lots of grain. Might as well enjoy eating the cows while your at it.


...besides, who could give up steak and eggs!:!)
 
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  • #50
cyrusabdollahi said:
you would have to grow that much plant food to replace the lost food by not eating the cow anyways.
No you wouldn't. That's my point.
 
  • #51
Sure you would. Thats a LOT of meat your eliminating. People are going to need to eat something to replace that meat that's no longer available. For every 1 cow I eat, I would have to eat much more plant food to fill me up. Eating 10 salads won't fill me up, 1 steak will.

How would you replace that lost food?


Even if you stopped eating meat, that would not be a very healthy decision. There are lots of stuff you need from meat. I just like the taste of it. Personally, I'd never give up that delicious taste. Steaks, fajitas, sushi, kabobs, yummy.
 
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  • #52
cyrusabdollahi said:
For every 1 cow I eat, I would have to eat much more plant food to fill me up. Eating 10 salads won't fill me up, 1 steak will.
The cow ate more than 10 salads worth of grain to make that 1 steak.
 
  • #53
Does this help?
http://boston.Earth'save.org/GlobalWarming.htm
 
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  • #54
Aren't you young cyrus? I hope you're not stubborn already!
 
  • #55
I like eating cows, so sue me. :-p
 
  • #56
jimmysnyder said:
Does this help?
http://boston.Earth'save.org/GlobalWarming.htm

I don't understand how I am supposed to interpret that website. Cows isn't even listed on there.

For ****s and giggles, compare the energy used in raising cattle to some industrial process and see if its even a drop in the global bucket of warming. I'm willing to bet its not.
 
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  • #57
Does this help?
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment/article/0,28804,1602354_1603074_1603171,00.html
 
  • #58
http://www.physorg.com/news4998.html

http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/15_reasons.asp

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/12/would_you_stop.html

http://www.all-creatures.org/adow/cam-meat.html

MANY reasons to stop eating red meat and pork in particular.

Cyrus, you often also complain about SUV drivers. That attitude you're doing right now is no different than those driving SUVs and Hummers. I like my Hummer and I like big car... yadda yadda... you I like meat... yadda yadda.

Seriously, don't be so hard headed.
 
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  • #59
jimmysnyder said:
Does this help?
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment/article/0,28804,1602354_1603074_1603171,00.html

That's a smack in the face.
 
  • #60
There is nothing unhealthy about eating meat Jason. Its about the quantity of meat we eat. We eat TONS and TONS of meat in our diet, too much of it.

Just cut back on the meat and eat a resonable proportion of it. Unless you have a medical condition, there's no reaosn why you shouldn't be eating meat.

Also, if you want to cut back pollution, tell India and China and other largely populated countries to stop having kids. There are far too many people in the world to begin with. That in and of itself is a major problem.