Vegan Diet did NOT Kill Florida Child - a Bizarre Case of Oppression

From: Ted (truthfulted_at_shadango.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: 4 Mar 2005 12:29:13 -0800

I like myself a hamburger as much as the next guy, but I am pissed as
hell that this family is undergoing this kind of bogus persecution
over a scientific issue that the prosecutors in Florida don't
understand!
 If a famous nutritional expert like Michael Greger says that being
vegan is safe, then it's safe. (http://www.drgreger.org/bio.html) It
isn't my choice, but Dr. Greger should know. He is the dude that
helped get Oprah Winfrey off when the beef association went after her
and he is taking on the whole Atkins company and has proven that their
diet is not safe. He is a general practitioner specializing in
clinical nutrition and a founding member of the American College of
Lifestyle Medicine. He is author of Heart Failure: Diary of a Third
Year Medical Student and has contributed to a number of books on
nutrition and food safety issues. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the
Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University
School of Medicine and teaches at Cornell. If he was a quack, he
wouldn't be teaching there. This story pisses me off because it it
about religious and racial oppression and not science. Fortunately
for this family, a great attorney by the name of Ellis Rubin is now
the defense attorney and it looks like they might get these false
charges dropped. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/national/main668225.shtml

This is the story"

A Bizarre Case of Oppression

            Think about it. How would you like to be arrested and
thrown in jail because you were following a non-mainstream diet? Does
that seem like fiction?

            Further, suppose that your children were taken away from
you and placed in foster care (for which you are then asked to pay
child support while still under arrest) because the state believes
that your raw vegan diet is not healthy. And this strange situation
has arisen because, after four normal, healthy children that you
successfully raised without ever having to visit a doctor, your fifth
child died. Never mind that the child had a missing thymus gland (a
fatal birth defect, documented in the medical literature as DeGeorge
Syndrome, that impairs the immune system, leading to infection and
death). And never mind that your baby lived for five months, whereas
infants with this syndrome are reported as usually living for no more
than a few weeks). It also appears to be of no consequence that before
the ordeal began, people in public places have stopped to ask you how
you manage to keep your children so radiantly healthy.

            And how would you like, after spending three months in
jail, to be under house arrest for the next year and a half with an
electronic monitor permanently strapped to your ankle, 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, while you fight a family court case (charges of
parental negligence) and a criminal court case (charges of aggravated
manslaughter), pay for two telephones in your home (so you can be
"monitored"), pay child support and rent for your section 8 apartment.
(Don't even ask how you can pay these bills when you no longer have a
vehicle—because the insurance expired while you were in jail and your
car is now in police custody). And your passport and residency card
have been confiscated, while you are still expected to find a job and
show income in order to even have a chance of getting your children
back.

            And you—a devoted parent and a highly spiritual individual
who believes in treading lightly on this earth, hugging the trees for
the life and nourishment they provide—wonder what will happen next.
Two birthdays of your four young children have passed without your
even being allowed to see them once; meanwhile, they have been
vaccinated against your wishes, causing them to fall sick, and two of
them, at least on two occasions to your knowledge, have been taken to
the emergency room in a hospital—when your children had never had to
see a doctor in all their lives before this nightmare began. And you
and your spouse have been through one public defender or pro bono
attorney after another, and they all get to the same perspective
eventually—accept a plea bargain for a limited sentencing. The state
realizes that it made a mistake in your case, but then, it doesn't
want to look bad. And for this reason alone, the prosecutor's office
is not going to let you go free. They and the public defender's office
work hand in hand to dispose of the huge number of cases they have on
their plates. Your enormous misfortune is that you've fallen into
their plate.

            Hang on to this scenario—because this is reality for
Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn of Homestead, Florida. She is only 29, and
he a little older. Their crime is that they are on a living food diet.
They fed their children only organic fruits, vegetables and nuts, even
though they made barely enough to live day-to-day. Yet the state has
charged them with parental neglect, labeling the children
"malnourished" without evidence to back it up; and charged the parents
with "aggravated manslaughter" of their fifth child!

Keep reading the story here: http://www.familynightmare.org/

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