02 February 2019 02 Feb 2019

Vegans, vegetarians and pregnancy

In December 2018, the prosperous vegan parents of a toddler, whose diet-related vitamin D deficiency caused her to develop rickets, were arrested in Australia (Chapman, 2018) This follows a UK case in 2014, where the Seventh Day Adventist parents of a 5-month-old baby who died from rickets (his mother was a vegan and his parents' religious views limited medical care) were imprisoned (Brannan et al, 2014)