Do vegans allow their children to breast feed?!
Do vegans allow their children to breast feed?
I'm pretty ignorant on a lot of vegan beliefs. All I've heard/know is that vegans don't consume and/or use any kind of animal product. However, humans are technically animals aren't we? If they can't/won't drink cow's/goat's/sheep's milk does "people" milk go into that category as well?
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Ofcourse they do my friend. All the animals produce milk just for the one and only simple reason of feeding their babies. Milk is the only diet for all the little ones (I guess mammals). I am a vegan and the concept behind Veganism is that we (the supposedly highly evolved, super intelligent) need not depend on other animals (for meat and byproducts) for our own selfish reasons - our survival and growth.
We can do very well without consuming any of the animal products including meat, eggs and even milk. This has been proved beyond doubt by many who are very healthy vegans. This does not mean that vegans do not feed their little ones their own milk - it is being produced for the very reason of feeding the babies.. hope got the gist..
Some vegan's do breast feed depending on the person. Breast milk is the most nourishing of all forms of feeding. The technicality of a human being as an animal has no relevance here, if that were the case then sexual contact would not be allowed due the exchange of body fluids, kissing included.
Hmmm, interesting question. I never even thought of that one, and my wife always says "you come up with weirdest questions". All I can say is that I never breast fed any of mine. But seriously, we are not animals. We were created by God, in His image, just a little lower than the Angels, according to the Bible. So, I think it would be totally permissible for a vegan to breast feed her child.
Yes they do but studies have shown that there are a lot of side effects during and after pregancy. Here is some additional information:
Vegan mothers who do not obtain adequate vitamin B12 in their diet while breastfeeding can cause severe and permanent neurological damage to their infants.
I used to babysit for a vegan family and they breast fed.
Yes, Vegans will allow their children to breast feed. Humans are not exploited when brest feeding takes place.
OF COURSE THEY DO. WHY DO YOU THINK THE BODY PRODUCES THAT MILK. BABIES SHOULD BE FED NOTHING BUT BREAST MILK.
For me, being ‘vegan’ is not about avoiding animal products, but eating as humans were designed to eat. Sure, we are capable of digesting meat, but not very well. We're much better adapted for raw vegetation and fruit. Once cooked, other foods such as tubers grains beans legumes etc. digest well also. Animals designed to eat raw meat have a very different digestive system (see biology 101). In difficult time humans can survive on pretty much anything, but we really thrive on the first above mentioned foods.
We, as all mammals, were designed to consume mother’s milk. We are born with the ability to digest mother's milk. Mother's milk is for babies. Human milk if for human babies. Goat milk is for baby goats and so forth.
Once mammals stop suckling, slowly the enzyme stops being produced, and one can never consume milk again because that ability never comes back; it's not needed anylonger (propagandists like to call that "lactose intolerance" and hint that it's unnatural and a problem, but it's natural).
Someone mentioned B12 deficiency and side effects to babies of vegan mothers, but that’s silly. Very ignorant. How can you avoid B12? How can you avoid any vitamin or nutrient if you are eating food on a regular basis? It’s impossible. You’d have to be on some kind of crazy diet or something where you only eat potato chips or perhaps only eat watermelon.
All of the vegan children I know of have all been breastfed and are healthy, smart, and so forth. No illnesses, no deficiencies, and very rarely sick at all, perhaps once every few years, if that.
yes i think
ask them
Only if human milk were to be given to other animals, that would be wrong.
Human milk is meant for human babies, just like cow's milk was made for baby cows.
Sounds like most people don't understand vegans very well, Let me explain this to you... vegans just want things to be natural and try their best to fit in with how nature works. Cows milk is for calves not humans. You don't see other animals drink the milk of another species, so why do humans? Human milk is for babies, cows milk is for calves, dog milk is for puppies, sheeps milk is for lambs and so on. So of course Vegans feed their babies breast milk! its the best thing for them, its what nature designed for them!
Of course.
Breast milk is the best food for an infant of any species. Human breast milk for a human infant, tiger breast milk for a tiger cub, cow's breast milk for a calf, etc.
Did you know that humans are the only species that routinely feeds their young the milk of another species? And then we wonder why they get sick.
first off no one can allow their child to breast feed because that is impossible how ever as to whether or not they allow their child to be breast Fed or not is depends on the person
To Scocasso, that answer is just so wrong, we are adapted to eat meat very nicely.
No sensible vegans can contest that we were deigned to eat meat. Even most vegan scientists agree that human's are designed to eat meat, that is not in question.
Simple research into human biology reveals how we are meant to eat meat. For one thing, our body produces hydrochloric acid and meat splitting enzymes that herbivores don't produce and are solely used for the digestion of meat. There are adaptations to our teeth (not incisors, rather the size of the jaw), stomach and intestines which have made a human being very adept at meat digestion. There is nothing wrong with the way our body digests meat, and we are so adept at eating it no scientists are of any doubt we've evolved to eat it.
In contrast, there are many reasons we aren't naturally herbivores. We cannot naturally get all the nutrients we need without animal products naturally. Vitamin B12 cannot be got, even now, without animal products or supplements, and a lack of it can cause anaemia and impending death. 60% of vegans even now have some level of B12 deficiency, as opposed to no meat eaters, which says something about how well adapted we are to a vegan diet.
All other nutrients can be got naturally. That owes to that vegetables can now be sold all year round, even out of season, and can be flown into the country from all over the world. In bygone times people could only eat the relatively small range of plants that grew in their ecosystem, and only when they were in season. Thus many more nutrients would have been unavailable and still more unavailable for most of he year. Until very recently it would have been impossible for a vegan human to live naturally without dying very quickly.
Now, meat makes up for all these lost nutrients very nicely, and it really shows how we aren't naturally vegans, as until very recently it was impossible to live like that.
It is true that we are the only mammal that drinks milk (well, if you exclude giving cats a saucer of milk, etc, as that's only because we give it to them (although I have to say they don't seem to mind)) but that's besides the point. Most humans, unlike most mammals, do not naturally become lactose intolerant after infancy, as over the last few thousand years our bodies have adapted to be able to drink milk into adulthood, due to a mutation in most humans. That most mammals do not have this mutation is completely irrelevant, as we are not most mammals. This is evolution, which is why lactose intolerance is more common in societies which don't drink lots of milk, but only a very small minority in Northern Europeans, who traditionally consume lots of dairy. Still, since we have adapted through evolution to drink cows milk in adulthood over the last few thousand years, as has been shown in several studies, one could say it is natural for us, or at the very least that it is not unnatural.
You know nothing about B12, please shut up or do some research, I don't mind. Even the vegan society admits that humans cannot naturally get B12 without animal products, and need supplements, and refute other proposed ways of obtaining it.
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nu...
Most do im prettty sure but there are some who dont.
Human, "people", milk is meant for baby humans. Cow's milk is meant for baby cows. Goat's milk is meant for baby goats. etc.
Thats a really interesting question. I honestly don't think so, even if that makes sense. Its not really harming the people. And cows give milk to their young, so it probably doesn't matter if humans give milk to their young. I've actually never thought about that before, though. Nice question.