this article just blew me away.
A greek couple have been barred from adopting because they're vegetarians and would likley impose their lifestyle on the child.
by the looks of it i can only deduce that the agency thinks that the child would be malnourished in some way by being prevented from eating meat, which is a false notion that many vegetarians would agree with me on.
the only other reason i can think of is that these adoptive parents are a minority in some respect and the malnourishment line is being used as an excuse.
what's next? denying jewish and muslim couples from adopting because the child cant eat pork? denying homosexual couples because they wont have a mother or a father? ...the list can go on
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Vegetarian couple barred from adopting in Greece | News.com.au
Vegetarian couple barred from adopting in Greece
Vegetarian couple barred from adopting
Authorities fear diet will be imposed on child
Were advised by experts that child must eat meat, fish
A VEGETARIAN couple on the Greek island of Crete has been barred from adopting a child because of doubts about their diet, a local social welfare official said today.
The decision was taken because the would-be adoptive parents, who have gone to court to overturn it, eat no meat or fish and officials feared this regimen would be applied to the child as well.
"We asked the University of Crete medical school on the issue and they said the child's diet must include meat, fish, etc," the head of the city's welfare services, Spyros Epitropakis, said.
"We do not discriminate but we were obliged to check this out. The issue is now in the hands of the judicial authorities," he said.
The university expert whose recommendation was used by the welfare services to reject the application has labeled the affair "unreasonable."
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"It's unreasonable not to be given the child for being vegetarian," said Antonis Kafatos, a pediatrician and nutrition researcher.
"A child needs to eat fish, seafood and dairy products among other things, without meat being essential. But if the family has no intention of imposing its diet habits on the child, I don't see where the problem is," he said.
The case is to be examined on March 16.
Greece has one of the lowest birth rates in the European Union. Strict procedures covering adoption in the country often force couples to seek other options, such as adopting children sold by migrant gangs.
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