Tasha, a vegan, faced with insurmountable health problems from the diet, began eating meat again and health was restored. One of the interesting things was when she told her vegan friends, mamy of them admitted they secretly ate animal products from time to time for their health. The comments to the article show similar stores from many poeple who were not able to survive on a vegan diet either, and the usual righteous indignation from rabid vegans who blamed the "animal killing industry" for an "obvious made up story". Look up the symptoms of low B12 to understand this behaviour.

Article taken down, but archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110511152311/http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/

An NFL player tried to go vegan and still be a football player and found he could not and had to eat small amounts of animal products, despite having a huge budget for advice and ingredients.

Side effects of becoming vegetarian.

Read this and see if this makes more sense.

breastfeeding TreyAn 11 month old baby exclusively breastfed by a vegan mother has died and the parents are charged with neglect after an autopsy indicated the baby suffered from deficiencies in vitamin B12 and Vitamin A – both known to be critical to a child’s development.

Vegans have long been advised to take B12 supplements as long term veganism runs the huge risk of serious B12 deficiency as well as other nutrients only found in animal foods such as true Vitamin A. Beta carotene is not true vitamin A nor does it easily convert to adequate amounts of Vitamin A in the body.

While I’m not sure I favor charging the parents in this tragedy as it smacks of Big Brother far too much for my comfort level, it does communicate a clear message to other vegans: abstinence from all animal foods is a danger to one’s health and most particularly, your baby.