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Fanatical dietary beliefs and fears, as well as poverty,
lack of care, inadequate labelling, and distancing from the
welfare services and advice from appropriate non-government
organizations, are contributing to tragic starvation and ensuing
fatal infection of babies born to parents with “extreme
and misguided” views and false confidence in “fruitarian”
and “raw vegan” diets.
Vegan diets can realize all the imperatives of a healthy
lifestyle and express the fulfilment of the vegetarian ideal.
VEGA’s reviews and other publications offer guidance
on specific challenges where practitioners may be ignorant
or misguided by combining their custom with less reliable
departures from the norm.
VEGA is also trying to prevent the peddling in schools of
dubious advice by zealots stung by the propaganda of the dairy
and meat industries. These arguments run the risk of touching
off untoward alienations and eating disorders doing irreversible
harm, especially in teenage girls with anorexic tendencies.
Apart from its own efforts VEGA is enlisting help from the
Food Standards Agency and the manufacturers and retailers
of suitable foods to avert tragedies such as the example that
attracted a legal judgement last week.
Some relevant information in VEGA REVIEWS is available by
post from
Dept GM, VEGA, 14 Woodland Rise, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6
0RD or go straight to VEGA REVIEW No. 2
on Vitamin D.
* See daily press 15 September 2001
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