Interesting reading. I am not sure about a vegan diet for children. They are developing so quickly that they need all the nutritional requirements of a well balanced diet.

Typical idiotic political knee jerk reaction. Lets punish everyone for the sake of some doing wrong. How dangerous it is to feed kids actual food instead of the over processed, swimming in fat, loaded with salt fast food junk the “normal, caring and nurturing” parents FORCE their kids to try to survive off.

I think this is shocking since a vegan diet (correctly done with B12 supplementation) supplies everything needed for health and is in fact MORE healthy in many ways than the ‘standard diet”.. so long as you’re not eating just chips and coke veganism in fact eliminates many toxic products, at least the salts, sugar, fats etc. that processed food has. I find it exceptional that a law would be considered… if it is I think it should include parents who feed their children junk, giving them nutrient poor, calorie dense foods that endup costing the health care system lots to fix.

wow just wooowww! how silly and superficial! parents should be charged

I guess they have a good point, even if the penalties seem a bit harsh, we need to keep our kids safe and healthy. I am amazed sone parents are so ill educated on a healthy diet for growing kids

Parent should be educated on how to feed their child the correct balance of nutrients

I would like to see more information on this issue and in this article. People with traditional, vegetarian and vegan diets may all suffer from being malnourished if not eating the right foods. Qualified dieticians should be consulted and a GP to ensure all nutritional value is being sourced from foods.

It is not the vegan diet that is the problem it is the parents not providing the right type of vegan food, you can’t just cut food out and replace it with vegan ‘junk food’, it has to be healthy. My son is 15 and has been vegetarian all his life and mostly vegan since 10 years old. He never get’s sick and is strong and healthy. But we make a lot of effort to eat lot’s of healthy nourishing vegan food.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 13 Aug 2016 , 5:23 am

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  Yep – It is about education and ensuring you know what is required in any diet; traditional, vegetarian, vegan and so on…..

I don’t understand why parents are not taking better care of their children. Let them decide later in life if they want to be vegan. Poor bub.

so educate people on what a vegan child would need in a day to be healthy. Vegan and vegetarians have to have a lot more than a regular diet

Not sure about this law. You start with vegan and then? One day there will be a law against vegetarian people or who knows what else?

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  • • june11 replied
    • 11 Aug 2016 , 10:19 pm

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  Babies and young children are likely to not like the flavour of a lot of foods that contain the nourishment they need with just vegetables. e.g. would you feed a baby or very small child on food like spinach to get the nourishment content they need from it. Most little ones don’t like the flavours of dark green vegetables that contain a large % of some vitamins, minerals etc. It is not safe to give a child nuts until they are able to chew properly when they have all their teeth – preferably permanent front teeth. If you don’t want your your child to have ordinary dairy products- in some genuine cases people of all ages are allergic to them – you can get lactose products in place of dairy.