More Positive but Less Harvestable

[Monica]

I offered that here.

Those people were obviously insane. It had nothing to do with being vegan. The child wasn't malnourished because of being vegan; the child was malnourished because the parents were insane and failed to feed the child properly, and failed to heed the obvious signs of malnutrition. They could have starved the child with any diet. They said it was a religion. The problem is with extreme religion, not the vegan diet. The way it was stated, it seemed to imply that just raising a child vegan, is fanatical and extremist.

To say, "vegan parents starve child" is like saying, "black parents starve child." Their veganism wasn't the issue, just like being black or Asian or whatever, wouldn't have been the issue. Being vegan isn't automatically extremist, anymore than being black is.