Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[Aractus]

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/1...-year-old/

A 12 year old girl raised on a strict vegan diet was admitted to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, Scotland, suffering from a severe form of rickets. The girl had already experienced multiple fractures and been diagnosed with a degenerated spine comparable to that of an unhealthy 80-year-old woman.
Fox News reports the hospital doctors are under pressure to report the couple to police and social workers. Dr. Faisal Ahmed, a pediatrician treating the child, declined to discuss specifics, but allowed the dangers of forcing children to follow a strict vegan diet need to be publicized.
If raised strictly vegan, the child would almost certainly have severe deficiencies of Vitamins A and D, both of which are essential bone nutrients that can only be obtained from animal products. In all likelihood, she would also be lacking needed calcium, zinc, B-12 as well as other B vitamins, Vitamin K, the EPA and DHA fatty acids and the sulfur containing amino acids methionine and cysteine.
Although the human body is theoretically capable of converting beta carotene into true Vitamin A, children are not able to do so efficiently if at all. Sunlight could have provided Vitamin D but only if the family lived outdoors in the tropics and not in a northern clime like Scotland.

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Nope, you are just wrong. Yes cats require taurine, taurine is present in algae, but you are right the amount of taurine in plants is negligible.

Firstly vegan cat foods are supplemented with synthetic taurine. The only reason why vegan pet foods may not be safe is because they have not been fully scientifically tested. But there is nothing in meat that could not be added to vegan pet food from vegan sources, its just a matter of understanding the physiology and chemistry.

Are you a qualified vet?

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You say its unnatural to feed a cat food vegan food

That's NOT what I said.

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FYI, you morons keep claiming vegetarians/vegans live longer and are healthier. If this is really the case then explain this: