[identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Italian baby kept on vegan diet taken into care after being found malnourished

"A 14-month-old Italian baby, who was reportedly fed a vegan diet, has been removed from his parents after arriving at a Milan hospital seriously malnourished. The baby, whose name has not been released, was taken to hospital by his grandparents a week ago and doctors were shocked to see the poor state of the baby’s health and a body weight only just slightly higher than a newborn. Blood tests revealed the child, who was born in May 2015, was severely malnourished with calcium levels barely adequate to survive. The baby was also suffering from a congenital heart condition which required emergency surgery. He is now recovering in hospital."

In other news, a 32 year old New York man named Frank Broccoli died in his sleep from drowning with his own saliva. The man was a 11th grade vegan, which is considered one of the highest ranks of veganism on the Greenleaf Scale.

His dream was to reach grade 12, where the vegan refuses to consume their own saliva. At daytime, the strict vegan had taught himself to spit all of his saliva because it was of human (i.e. animal) origin, and it contained innocent bacteria which could die in the hostile environment of the human stomach.

The reason for the man's death was drowning, because at night he had taught himself to resist the swallowing reflex. So the saliva built up in his throat and at some point it suffocated him.

Vegans from all over the world can't wait to pay solemn tribute to their brother by eating a cup of corn - gluten-free, of course, because gluten sounds kinda environment-unfriendly.

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Date: 15/7/16 07:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luvdovz.livejournal.com
The imaginary NY man can die a death as painful as he wishes; as for the parents of that kid though, they should be prosecuted, stripped of their parental rights, and rot in jail.

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Date: 15/7/16 07:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com
Completely intolerant. And completely correct too.

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Date: 15/7/16 07:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamville-bg.livejournal.com
Frank Broccoli sounds (and seems) too un-American to me.

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Date: 15/7/16 08:26 (UTC)
garote: (machine)
From: [personal profile] garote
And yet:

"Veganism appears to be on the rise in Italy and some media reports estimate around 2.8 per cent of the population now avoid all animal products."

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Date: 15/7/16 08:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ddstory.livejournal.com
And don't forget Pastafarianism.

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Date: 15/7/16 08:41 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luvdovz.livejournal.com
Anorexia is on the rise (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11700610/The-rise-and-rise-of-anorexia.html) as well.

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Date: 16/7/16 08:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] airiefairie.livejournal.com
I am the last one to tell people how to raise their kids, but this is one of those cases when the authorities ought to intervene.

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