French vegans in dock over baby daughter’s death from vitamin deficiency

TWO vegans who fed their 11-month-old daughter only mother’s milk went on trial in northern France charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin deficiency.

Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou, whose vegan diet forbids consuming any animal product including eggs and cow’s milk, called the emergency services in March 2008 after becoming worried about their baby Louise’s listlessness.

When the ambulance arrived at their home in Saint-Maulvis, a small village 150 kilometres north of Paris, the baby was already dead.