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Title: Feeding Kids Meat Is Still Child Abuse
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PETA
URL Source: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/09/child_abuse.php
Published: Sep 11, 2008
Author: PETA
Post Date: 2008-09-11 17:32:32 by Ninpo
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Views: 1192
Comments: 70
he story of a 15 year old boy in Lubbock, Texas in need of a liver transplant because of health complications relating to obesity is the latest case highlighting the need for parents to step up and teach their children healthy eating habits. We believe that parents have a responsibility to teach their children healthy eating habits. Raising your children on a meat-based diet that might lead them to the hospital or an early grave is child abuse, plain and simple. And that’s exactly the message on PETA’s new billboard we’re trying to run in Lubbock, Texas. The boy’s diet consisted of mostly burgers and pizza which (duh!) resulted in a fatty liver. This is not a health problem a child should ever have to face, but unfortunately, he’s not the only one. It is becoming a sickening sign of the adolescent obesity epidemic that some adolescents are requiring liver transplants due to their poor diets rich in fats. To help spotlight that vegetarianism is a key to overcoming obesity in children and parents’ responsibility in getting this message to their children, PETA’s billboard with the tagline, "Feeding kids meat is child abuse - Fight the fat - GoVeg.com." will hopefully be hitting Lubbock shortly. childabuse.JPG Many children who are fed a diet of saturated fat- and cholesterol-laden burgers, nuggets, and hot dogs show symptoms of heart disease by the time they reach first grade. Parents don’t need to be told that feeding their children such poor diets may be slowly killing them, its common sense. But they’re feeding it to them anyway. Child abuse. Plain and simple. Posted by Carrie Ann Harris
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#13. To: Ninpo (#0)
First, I bet he ate more than a just one double cheese burger at a time, or just a couple of slices of pizza. For two, you DO need to eat fruits and vegetables for a balanced diet in ADDITION to meat and dairy products. For three, how many bags of chips and 2 liter bottles of Coke did he wash the burgers down with, and how many twinkies, cup cakes, and boxes of ice cream did he eat for dessert and "snacks"? What about all the other "snack food" crap they market to kids these days, loaded with artificial ingredients and corn syrup?
So, like, what is the point of your rant?
The point, oh nature lover, is that it wasn't the meat itself that made him fat, it was the breading, the dough surrounding the meat, and all the junk food he no doubt ate along with the meat. Tell me, do you believe in evolution? If so, you should eat meat. Carnivorous animals eat meat, are you going to make your average Yellowstone wolf you no doubt idolize eat grass and carrots? If we are nothing more than animals, we should behave as other forward eye animals and eat meat. Survival of the fittest!! We are the top of the food chain.
No, I don't believe in faith based theories.
You have incisors. If you don't believe me, ask your dentist. How do you reconcile that with your no-meat mantra?? Sure, we have molars, that just makes us omnivores, like grizzly bears.
I haven't eaten meat in 9 years. I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years. You figure it out.
#19. To: Ninpo, All (#18)
If you were really committed to the "cause", you'd get your ass down to the dentist and tell him to extract your incisors. Will you swear before everybody here at 4um to do this??
Thirty percent of what I eat is meat and I haven't had a cold or the flu in 30 years.
I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years. You figure it out. Wow... That's some pretty astute logic... I've probably eaten meat every day since I was born, and the sun rose on every one of those days. If I stopped eating meat, you would freeze to death...
Are you trying to say you are a former faggot that doesn't have aids?
Why are you for starving kids? NEW YORK — A vegan couple in New York City were busted for starving their baby daughter — by denying her breast milk and formula, feeding her only nuts, fruits and vegetables, and allegedly failing to get her medical help for severe malnutrition. Joseph and Silva Swinton, both 31, were arrested Friday and charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child for failing to properly feed and care for their baby, Ice. The Swintons, who are being held in lieu of $20,000 bail, face up to seven years in prison if convicted. Sixteen-month-old Ice Swinton weighed only 10 pounds, looked like a 2- or 3-month-old and was half the normal weight of a child her age when authorities discovered her close to death last November. EMS workers rushed Ice to from her Queens home to Long Island Jewish Hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with developmental problems, a distended abdomen, fractured bones, a vitamin deficiency called rickets and a lung disorder — all caused by malnutrition, authorities said. The Swintons, who say they approach veganism as a religion, fed the child a diet of "ground nuts, fresh-squeezed fruit juices, herbal tea, beans, cod liver oil and flax seed oil," a complaint said. Even when doctors told the couple their baby was on the brink of death in November, both parents insisted "there was nothing wrong" and were resistant to treatment, the complaint said. After a four-month hospital stay, the New York City Administration for Children's Services placed the baby in a foster home. Several months on a healthy diet have helped the 20-month-old to achieve the functions of a 10- to 12-month-old baby, but the child is still struggling, authorities said. Warren Silverman, a lawyer representing the mother, questioned why there was such a long delay to file charges. "If Long Island Jewish Hospital at that time thought that something was amiss, why wasn't something done right away?" he asked. The Swintons have been allowed supervised visits with their daughter — but ACS has asked that a judge order them stopped after the father said he thought the child was getting "chubby," sources said. Neighbor Toyin Savage said she was "shocked." Another neighbor said she saw the baby recently. "I asked how old she was and they said, 'Almost a year.' She looked very small. They said she was a vegetarian — I didn't think about it at the time." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,51494,00.html
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#16. To: echo5sierra (#15)
Tell me, do you believe in evolution?
#17. To: Ninpo (#16)
#18. To: X-15 (#17)
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#21. To: Ninpo (#18)
I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years.
#23. To: Ninpo (#18)
I haven't eaten meat in 9 years.
#24. To: Ninpo (#18)
I haven't eaten meat in 9 years.
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