This NY Times op-ed about the dangers of raising your baby on a vegan diet was insightful: "Death by Veganism." I had never thought about the implications of keeping vegan when pregnant or raising a baby, and thus depriving it of certain proteins.
The only fault I find in the article is the implication, in the second-to-last paragraph, that vegetarianism and veganism are just fashions, and that "food is more important than fashion." In fact there is are long traditions of vegetarianism, particularly in India, as the author notes earlier in the article.
My own ideals of vegetarianism are a reaction to factory farming, and if I had a baby, I'd happily feed it whatever it needs, so long as I could establish that the meat was responsibly raised.
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