Reply to post: Re: @ Greg D

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

AJ MacLeod

Re: @ Greg D

Well a few points - firstly the differences between vegan and veggie are moot if the article is correct in stating that this loony wants both types of parents jailed.

Secondly, there always have been and always will be people with extremely odd ideas - I wasn't denying that and have already pointed out that in the minuscule number of cases where children end up seriously affected by their parent's dietary choices some kind of intervention is required (sending the parent to jail is unlikely to be the best first intervention.) There is no need for weekly government inspection of all household menus.

Thirdly, scientific "facts" are quite often not facts at all; government recommendations on a multitude of things relating to childcare have changed radically over the years and all of them were considered "scientific facts" at the time. Jailing parents who didn't subscribe to these later revoked methods would hardly have been reasonable would it?

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