Quote Originally Posted by Sonya610 View Post
I never saw that episode, but I know I have seen a couple of other House episodes that were obviously based in part on real life stories.

The real couple was afraid of hospitals, gave birth in a bathtub, and their kid never saw a doctor until the end (so the House story may have been pretty accurate).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1768368.ece
It was one of those side-stories in an episode(where dr house works in the clinic), there was a dangerously undernourished baby raised by vegans who may have been arrested at some point(I can't remember for sure) but at one point they said "we're vegans, but we consulted an infant nutritionist for our baby!", and upon further testing it turned out the infant had some disorder of some kind.

The whole vegetarian/vegan lifestyle is difficult. I have two cousins(sisters) that are veggies, and when the older got married and had a kid, she was told during a doctor's visit while she was pregnant that her kid was underweight. Her doctor told her she had to start eating meat or risk serious problems. As much as it killed her to do it, she started downing steak and burgers, and pretty immediately their kid's weight bumped up to a normal range.

As far as this thread goes, I like to consider myself a pretty big hippie in a ton of regards. However, I have no qualms about eating meat. I eat other animals. I LOVE red meat and fish. There is a hunter/predator within me that is more than capable of going after, killing, cleaning, cooking, and eating my quarry. I just wish cows were a native species I could hunt.. I love my steak.

But I still call myself a hippie just about every day