Nope, their extremist veganism was a factor in this neglect and death.

Home schooling would not have led to death.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It is a rather limiting diet. While I think most people could quite happily get by as vegetarians, due to limitations within a vegan diet it's something that certainly requires more planning to avoid deficiencies. The problem being if someone just suddenly adopts the 'I'm a vegan' mindset, but doesn't actually get into the details of what they're consuming, they can certainly encounter problems.

A benefit of a more typical diet is that even if it's pretty crap, you're more likely to have the basics covered. The downside of course is that it often operates at a surplus, too much sugar, too much everything. And so you see diabetes and the like cropping up at unusually young ages, which also has life long implications. There's enough info out there for people to plan a half decent, balanced diet for themselves and their kids if they have the inclination to do so though.

Edited by dollardays (26 Nov 2019 1.08pm)

Plenty that we eat and do in the modern world isn't particularly natural by any past standard. Though I would certainly agree that deficiencies can be more prevalent with a limited diet, and that there is no more important time than childhood to get a complete diet. If for ethical reasons people feel compelled to raise their children in a vegetarian environment, as long as the diet is truly complete in terms of the nutrients received I don't suppose it's a serious problem. Not as though it's for me or mine though, along the lines of your view. I would tend to agree that veganism is a step too far for children though.

A pertinent point to make about these parents is that they look perfectly healthy and aside from being mental clearly had a much more complete and calorific diet, as vegans, than their children did. It would seem that, through rank stupidity, they effectively starved and hydrated their children, rather than truly offered any understood branch of diet. They appear to be very 'off the grid' types. Baby delivered at home, had never seen a doctor. The more people detach from wider society, the more they're likely to go off the deep end in one form of another, so perhaps it's a sadly predictable outcome. If any medical professional had seen their children in the months previous, they would've stepped in. A tragic situation.

If people want to eat a boring vegan diet then let 'em I say.
Just don't tell the rest of us what to eat.

The trouble for me is that I tend to associate vegans with the kind of people who have totally dumb ideas about a whole range of other topics.

I suppose that mental illness and attachment to wacky concepts tends to be higher than average.....duh!...I've just realised how obvious a statement I've made there.

I wouldn't say veganism is wacky instead I'd file it under alternative diet however what this couple were doing was loon city.

I think that mental illness and transgenderism are also connected at higher than average rates and that we are living through a strange period in European society where leaders in society are scared to state basic truths out of fear of ruin.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Nov 2019 2.42pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Yep, well said Hrolf.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)