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Elvira Savino, from Italy’s centre-right Forza Party, says her bill would prevent “radicalised” diets being imposed on youngsters.
Vegetarian and vegan diets lack can lack zinc, iron, omega-3 and vitamin D and B12, she claimed.
And if her bill is successful, imposing such a diet on someone under 16 would become a criminal offence.
The country has been rocked in recent months by a series of child hospitalisations caused by vegan diets.
Last month, a 14-month-old baby was taken to hospital with the expected weight of a three-month-old.
It emerged he had been subjected to a vegan diet, leaving him dangerously malnourished and with low calcium levels.
I haven’t formed an opinion on this yet, but found it interesting.