Vegetarians

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A professor in the United States has angered long-time vegetarian Sir Paul McCartney by attacking parents who raise their children with a strict vegetarian diet. Professor Lindsay Allen of the University of California said children who are raised without eating meat or dairy products suffer mental and physical developmental problems. She said this includes unborn children, "There have been sufficient studies clearly showing that when women avoid all animal foods, their babies are born small, they grow very slowly and they are developmentally retarded, possibly permanently." She said it is "unethical" for parents not to give animal products to children. Sir Paul dismissed Professor Allen's findings as "rubbish", saying her research was funded by the American meat industry. He gives his own healthy children as an example of kids who grew up healthily on a non-meat diet. He continued, "Vegetarianism has been a good thing for me and my children, who are no shorter than other children." Ms Allen hit back, stating "Knowing Sir Paul is upset won't make me lose sleep. My work was done for the United States Agency for International Development, not a meat company." Her study showed how vegetarian children in Kenya greatly improved their physical and intellectual power after being given two spoons of meat a day. Perhaps a vegan diet is healthy. Perhaps a little meat or milk occasionally may be healthier. 

Source: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0502/23.veggie_kids.html