意大利：坚持让孩子吃纯素或将面临坐牢
Parents who insist on vegan diet for children may risk jail in Italy
If parliamentarian Elvira Savino has her way, Italian parents who insist on a vegan diet for their children will risk up to four years in jail.
若意大利国会议员萨维诺的提案通过,坚持让孩子吃纯素的父母将面临长达四年的监禁.
Savino, from the conservative Forza Italia party, has put forward a law that would hold parents legally responsible for feeding their children on "a diet devoid of elements essential for healthy and balanced growth".
保守派的意大利力量党议员萨维诺提出了一项法案,法案规定没有为子女提供健康平衡膳食的父母将负法律责任.
"I have nothing against vegans or veganism as long as it is a free choice by adults," she told Reuters in a telephone interview on Wednesday, days after she presented the proposed law in the lower house Chamber of Deputies.
在意大利众议院提出该法案后,她于当地时间8月10日接受路透社记者电话采访时表示："我并不反对素食者及素食主义,只要这是成年人自己的选择."
"I just find it absurd that some parents are allowed to impose their will on children in an almost fanatical, religious way, often without proper scientific knowledge or medical consultation," she said.
她解释："我只是发现有些家长用近乎狂热的传教方式将自己的意愿强加给孩子,他们没有听从正确的科学指导,也没有咨询过医生的建议,这着实荒谬可笑."
"Do-it-yourself on these matters terrorizes me."
"他们的这种自以为是真是吓到我了."
Some pediatricians advise against feeding children on a vegan diet, which they say can lack sufficient nutrition.
一些儿科医生提议反对让孩子吃纯素,因为只摄入素食会让孩子缺乏足够的营养.
Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry and vegans also do not eat animal products such as eggs and dairy foods.
素食者们不吃肉、鱼、禽类,而纯素食者甚至不食用诸如鸡蛋和奶制品等动物产品.
The law proposes jail sentences of a year for raising a child on a vegan diet, up to four years if the child develops a permanent health problem and up to seven years if the child dies as a result.
