No one is saying that parenting is easy — however, given that we’ve been doing it for literally hundreds of thousands of years, we’ve gotten pretty good at determining what is and isn’t good for a baby.

But what if you fed your newborn only meat? Sound like an insane, stupid idea? Well, these parents don’t seem to think so.

The “carnivore baby” trend has babies moving directly from milk to things like raw eggs, pureed chicken liver and butter. Parents of carnivore babies report giving them bones to chew on and feeding them bone broth lollipops as a treat. You know, like a dog.

“If it makes sense for adults, why wouldn’t it make sense for kids?” said one carnivore parent interviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

The short answer is, it *doesn’t* make sense for adults (and, naturally, neither does it make sense for infants). That same parent complained that the all-meat diet made her baby constipated, resulting in her having to introduce fruit to the baby’s diet.

In response to this trend, nutritionists have collectively begun screaming “NO! NO! NO!” After they’ve calmed down, they’ve noted that babies should have a wide variety of foods to meet their nutrient needs. While including meat and animal protein is perfectly fine in a young child’s diet, they should also eat, you know, vegetables.

But what do *they* know that some guy on TikTok doesn’t? Heck, he’s more muscular and red than any doctor I’ve seen, so *surely* it must be smart to feed my baby pure beef tallow!