20 Jun Parents Who Fed Their Baby a Vegan Diet Are Being Convicted 

A Belgian court has sentenced two parents over the death of their infant which was in part to due malnutrition, possibly caused by a vegan diet.

Baby Lucas, who was seven months old at the time of his death, weighed only nine pounds. According the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an organisation which promotes healthy living in order to prevent illness, Lucas was seven pounds underweight. His plummeting weight alongside his diet meant that the infant’s organs had shrunk to half their size and had no fat around them.

His parents, who owned an alternative health food store in Beveren, near Antwerp, believed their child was lactose or gluten intolerant, despite never getting him checked by a professional doctor. This led to them looking for alternative substances such as rice, quinoa and buckwheat milk, as well as relying on opinions from customers in their shop and suggestions on the internet about what to feed him.

Mieke Butstraen, the judge who handed down the sentence, said the decline in the baby’s health was “the result of the systemic offer of food that was not suitable”. Butstraen further added that because of the experimenting by the parents “his health was seriously impeded and he eventually died.” At the time of his death, Lucas was barely a kilogram heavier than the day he was born.

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