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Monday, February 21, 2005

NOW THEY TELL US!!  “RAISING CHILDREN AS VEGANS ‘UNETHICAL’”

A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children’s health by denying them meat….Prof Allen conducted a study of impoverished children in Kenya, and found that adding as little as two spoonfuls of meat a day to their starch-based diets dramatically improved muscle development and mental skills….Allen added. “Had these children received these foods earlier in life, or their mothers received them when they had been pregnant, or people could receive them throughout their lives, we think that the improvements in human capital development would be even more dramatic.”

Makes you wonder why some of that US$15 Billion for condoms isn’t spent on two   daily spoonfuls of meat for pregnant Moms and their children, doesn’t it?

  Read the whole article…

Posted by Earl on 02/21 at 09:46 PM
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