Yep. The headline says it all.
Elvira Savino from the centre-right party Forza Italia has proposed such legislation - and opinions are divided.
So how much jail time are we talking?
Well if you're a parent and you're caught providing children under 16 with a "diet lacking essential elements for an healthy growth", then you'll get two years.
But expect two and a half years if the offence leads to a minor "getting permanently sick or hurt."
And if a minor were to die as a result of the basic offence, then parents could be looking at up to six years.
Ms Savino says whilst adults have the choice to eat whichever diet they prefer, minors need to be protected from "radicalised" parents who wish to appoint on their children a restrictive diet that lacks "essential elements needed for an healthy physical and cognitive development."
And we've heard about this here in Australia - pseudo-scientist and TV chef Pete Evans came under fire for his paleo cookbook for newborns, whereby his proposed bone broth formula was independently analysed and found to be unsafe.
Young babies’ immune and digestive systems cannot process the high levels of the nutrients found in the formula, and experts concluded it could “cause permanent damage and possibly result in death."
Naturally, the proposal by Ms Savino makes a lot of sense. She's branding it "Savino Law", and hopes it will "stigmatise negligent parental behaviours which put minors at risk."
Vegan Diets Unsafe For Babies
There's been cases recently where children younger than three have been removed from their parents care, after following a vegan diet that left them malnourished.
In July, a 14-month-old-boy from Milan was suffering with a severe calcium deficiency and was taken to hospital; weighing only as much as a three-month-old.
A month earlier in Genoa, a two-year-old girl was put in the resuscitation unit after showing neurological issues. Doctors said her levels of vitamin B12 were extremely low.
It's hard to disagree with the proposal.
Follow any diet you like once you're an adult, but don't pass on the psuedo-science to your newborns - particularly when it puts their life at risk.
Let's hope this law gains attention right around the world and is implemented everywhere as a result!
"Stay Fit, Stay Flexed!"
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Dayne Hudson