KFI:
A 7-month-old Belgian baby died weighing just 9 pounds, after his hipster parents fed him a gluten and lactose-free diet.
The parents, identified as Sandrina V. and Peter S, are on trial for the death of their baby Lucas.
Sandrina and Peter, both in their 30s, own a health food store and fed Lucas oat milk, rice milk, semolina milk, and quinoa milk because they thought he had an eating disorder.
These people are absolutely brain dead! My 8 month old weighs 23lbs. I couldn’t imagine him being 9lbs and 7 months old.
Yet another sad example of the lethal effects of blind ideology.
Trial and error.
Seems like people that own a ‘health food store’ should have a basic grasp of nutrition as it applies to humans. Guess that’s too much to expect.
To think there are sterile and people having trouble conceiving in this world, but THESE set of morons get a baby. It’s sickening.
I suppose the left would frame this sad episode differently. I can see the ad campaign now. “We’ve developed an organic diet that has been proven to Stop Ageing.”
True enough, in left world.
What stupid dumbasses! The kid probably got stomach cramps after being bottle feed, because the worthless douche nozzles were too f-ing stupid to burp the tyke. They’ll let any shite head run a health food store. Only an ignorant buttwipe would feed their kid a “milk” that useless in infant nutrition on it’s own. Kid didn’t have an eating disorder, mom and pop had a mental disorder! And FFS! Only 18 months each!!!
Sadder than sad!!!
Poor little Lucas…RIP…and come back someday, so you can experience truly loving parents.
Sterilize them both so they can’t do it again. Then lobotomize them just to sure.
They must have diagnosed this baby themselves without the input from a pediatrician. This is so terrible because it was so senseless and avoidable. How sad for baby.
I assume one needs a license to run a health food store. They should have had one for having a baby.
Morons.
And to hell with the customers that said he was gray and emaciated and never turned them in. What in the actual fuck is WRONG with people?
AbigailAdams–they never took their baby to the doctor because they saw nothing wrong! Their customers noticed that Lucas was emaciated and gray. I wish they would get more than 18 months and I wish they were fed nothing but quinoa milk. Baby’s do most of their brain development in the first two years through nutrition. This makes me so angry and sad.
From Abigail: “I assume one needs a license to run a health food store. They should have had one for having a baby.”
You’ve touched on a subject most people won’t with a ten foot pole. Licensing parenthood. I see this a second only to the debate about abortion. I can see the borders of the debates, from those who champion abortion to those who would kill the mother for contemplating the act.
From meth heads and crack addicts squeezing out progeny that will never be anything but a burden on the public, to genetic testing to weed out homosexual zygotes.
People get all phucked up when the government tries to get involved in their fucking.
I don’t possess answer number one, but I do see the elephant in the room. I doubt these issues will ever be settled.
Why do people think their babies are their play-things? Do they think they are in a video game where they can re-animate what they kill?
Stupid, stupid.
I worked with a woman who took her 1 month-old baby to a chiropractor for an “adjustment”. WHAT???? I asked her why she did not realize that babies bones are ‘new’ and don’t need adjusting so soon. She didn’t speak to me anymore and I wasn’t sad about that.
This is worse than neglect. This took effort.
Case study of trying too hard. People have been feeding babies without health food stores for EVER. You f__ked up auto-pilot. Way to go. If only you didn’t think you were so smart, Lucas would still be here. Albeit with moron self-righteous parents.
@ Claudia
Actually, it is very sad she didn’t talk to you anymore. The baby would fare better if she did.
So sad. Some people are so stupid.
@ Lowell
You have a point. At 21 and with a new life in my arms, the thought occurred to me I was winging it and depended on other sources for what to do. Whether it an older relative, doctor’s book, or a friend – I still wanted/needed a manual, at least. WTH! They let me take this little guy home? What do I know?!
I will side on NOT licensing, though.
There is something natural that can be had. It comes from being committed to the baby. Since you DON’T know all the answers in advance – you are vigilant for everything the baby cries about. What is that redness? Why does he hold his left ear so much? He always spits up certain foods. Check the diaper – is he wet or dirty? Then make it clean.
Most are common sense – if you fear the baby suffering anything unnecessarily. If.
After all – God never did provide a how-to, to my knowledge. You just do it. And here we have billions to prove that point.
Some people have an absolute fear of being overweight. Remember how Moochelle talked about Sasha being fat like it was the end of the world? They may have thought the malnourished look for their baby was desirable.
I thought health-foody people were into natural stuff, so what’s wrong with breast milk? Amazingly enough, babies seem to thrive on the stuff.
Quinoa? Has this country lost its friggin mind? (rhetorical).
The Belgian government is jealous they didn’t get the chance to kill the kid first. Those are some sick bastards over there.
Call it a post-partum abortion … then it’s OK!
Or, in Belgium, just call it non-medical euthanasia!
POP! BAM! DONE!
izlamo delenda est …
Oh, I see, not the US. The vegan morons here are just as stupid. 9 pounds at 7 months? Good grief what is wrong w those friggin people, that was about my birth weight.
Idiots.
They should be stuffed with quinoa and roasted alive
They both need to be sterilized right away. Perhaps having their lobotomies first was not such a good idea.
Did the Media Kill a Belgiun Baby ? No Story at Eleven.
@Lowell — Yes, I know it is extremely unpopular to talk about anything like licensing for parenting. We have a huge population with nothing but problems related to neglectful and even psychotic parenting. Maybe changing times require changing our thinking about it. Many of today’s parent-aged people can barely take care of themselves, they would be completely lost trying to take care of an infant or toddler. We have proof of that, right?
An adopting parent has to go through a complete social work process, including letters of reference from people who know them and can vouch for their fitness as prospective parents. Everything is sifted through, including work histories, financial status, criminal (and misdemeanor) background checks at every level (local, state and federal). On top of all that, one is required to write an essay of why they seek to be a parent and what “style” of parent they believe they would be. It’s not called licensing, but let’s not kid ourselves. I rather doubt one has to expose the totality of one’s life for any other kind of licensing.
I wonder if she noticed she had tits? But I suppose being vegans there was no milk anyhow. Its a disgrace.