Neil Patrick Harris Rejects Granola Eating, Anti-Vaccination Parenting Advice (Video)
Written by Vegetarian Star on November 23rd, 2010 in Actors, Children, Nutrition-Health-Fitness, Videos.
Neil Patrick Harris was a guest on the “The Talk” to discuss his experiences with parenting. The actor and his partner, through the help of a surrogate, are the parents of twins.
With vegan Sara Gilbert and the other ladies of The Talk, Harris explains how he rejected Gilbert’s unconventional advice to raise vegan kids and not vaccinate them.
“You’re a crazy, granola person,” Harris says to Gilbert. “Not to vaccinate for ages and feed them certain weird foods,” he continues when asked what Gilbert recommended, ending with, “You’re a crazy vegan.”
Speaking of vaccinations, the issue over whether a parent should refuse to vaccinate a school attending child is not solely one related to the potential health consequences of the vaccine. Vegetarians and vegans may find vaccines against their principles as some of the formulas have contained animal and even human components to them.
The MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine contains live strains of the virus that is grown in chick embryo cells and then added to a mixture that contains other animal and human cells (gelatin, human albumin, fetal bovine serum).
Yet, another ethical quandary is the use of human fetal tissue in other vaccines.
Some strains of viruses in the varicella or chicken pox vaccine originated as cultures on human fetal tissue obtained through voluntary abortions in the 1960s.
More from Vegfamily:
“The varicella virus used in the vaccine is cultured on numerous animal tissues, including embryonic guinea pig cells, human diploid cells, and human embryonic lung cells. The vaccine, as a result, contains residual components of these cells. Human fetal tissue, according to the Center for Disease Control Center for Disease Control, has the advantage in the world of science of dividing more rapidly than other cells, as well as being “safer” than other animal cells-regardless of the fact that monkey, chicken, pig, guinea pig, and other animal cells are used in the manufacture of vaccines also.”
Vaccines have saved lives and wiped out and nearly eradicated many diseases like polio, smallpox and others.
Is this progress worth them not being vegetarian or vegan?
Should scientists work towards eliminating all animal products in vaccines that save lives?
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November 23rd, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Perhaps the growth-hormones, antibiotics, and chemicals in the meat he’s eaten over his lifetime has diminished his logical thinking facilities? But, it’s his child and he is within his rights to make decisions on the child’s behalf.