A woman in Australia refused to rid her own child of parasitic head lice because she was vegan and expressed an aversion to killing anything living, her neighbor complained.
The disturbing revelation comes from an advice column that was published long ago by the country’s Nine.com outlet, but only recently resurfaced and attracted a lot of attention.
Every word of it reads as an example of child abuse and the delusions of those who refuse to consume animal products, citing their perceived moral or ethical questions about it.
Nine’s life coach Alexandra Carlton received a letter about this whack job of a mom.
“My seven-year-old daughter is best friends with the girl next door, whose family are vegan,” the letter stated. “That’s fine; we respect their choice and even make special food when little River comes to play. My problem is that recently this otherwise delightful child was at our house and scratching furiously … and I discovered she was crawling with head lice.”
The concerned mother made the other child’s vegan mom aware of the infection — only to find her parents were well aware her scalp was being feasted upon.
“My [neighbor] told me she was in the practice of combing the lice and nits into the garden where they had a chance of survival,” the concerned parent wrote. “My jaw hit the floor.”
She concluded, “I don’t want to separate the kids, but there’s no way ‘combing them into the garden’ is going to work (industrial-grade pesticide barely works), and I don’t want my daughter covered in vermin.”
As a father, I would have instantly severed ties with this child’s family and banned each of them from my property.
That decision might seem rash, but head lice are no joke.
“I hate to be the one to tell you this but your neighbor is a monster. Does this woman not realize that simply combing those poor lice off their supporting hairs is condemning them to a slow, parched death in the garden?
“Does she not stop to think of the microscopic amoeba she’s crushing each time she swipes through her daughter’s locks? As you read this, she’s probably swallowing ladlefuls of innocent bacteria while she drinks her raw kelp kombucha smoothie, Nitty, sending them to a sizzling demise in the pits of her stomach acid.”
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