The medical establishment is having a complete meltdown over what parents are feeding their babies.
Some doctors are cheering on parents who ditch the processed baby food aisle entirely.
And doctors divided over new diet trend that has babies licking butter and gumming ribeye steak.
Forget those little jars of mushy pears and sweet potatoes that cost more than a decent steak dinner.
Parents across the country are feeding their babies something that would make Big Food executives break out in a cold sweat - actual meat.
We're talking about 1-year-olds gnawing on ribeye steaks with their four little teeth and slurping bone broth from bottles like it's formula.
Dariya Quenneville from Ontario started her daughter on raw egg yolks and puréed chicken liver as soon as she could handle solid foods.¹ Then came the sardines, bone broth ice pops, leg of lamb, beef heart, and tongue.
Meanwhile, registered dietitian Lorraine Bonkowski from Michigan has her 1-year-old daughter licking butter off spoons and gumming ribeye steak.² The kid gets bone broth in her bottle instead of juice.
These aren't fringe parents experimenting with their kids. These are medical professionals who've looked at what the government recommends - and decided to go in the complete opposite direction.
Here's where things get interesting. The medical community is split right down the middle on this.
Dr. Ken Berry, a family physician from Tennessee, told Fox News that this is actually how humans fed babies for thousands of years.³ "The first food for a baby, when it was ready to wean off the breast, was meat . . . gnawing on a bone," Berry explained.
He's not alone. Dr. Robert Cywes, a Florida pediatrician, started giving his son meat at 4 months old - with the kid's first real meal being a ribeye steak.⁴
But then you've got Dr. Marc Siegel warning that without fruits and vegetables, this becomes an "addiction" that leads to "heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity" later in life.⁵
The Centers for Disease Control wants kids eating a "variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins and dairy products."⁶ You know, the same government agency that spent years telling us eggs would kill us.
Think about what's really happening here. Parents are looking at the processed garbage lining the baby food aisle - those little pouches and jars filled with whatever Big Food companies decide is "nutritious" - and saying no thanks.
They're choosing to feed their babies the same foods humans ate for millennia before Gerber came along with their marketing machine.
And the medical establishment? They're freaking out because parents aren't following their carefully crafted guidelines that happen to align perfectly with what food companies want to sell.
Dr. Berry nailed it when he called those baby puffs and snacks "junk." These companies have convinced parents that babies need specially formulated, highly processed foods instead of actual nutrition.
Lauren Manaker, a registered dietitian, worried that cutting out "plant-based foods like fruits, veggies and grains can leave some big nutritional gaps."⁷ But here's the thing - humans thrived for thousands of years before we had access to year-round fruits and processed grains.
The carnivore baby trend isn't really about meat - it's about parents rejecting a system that profits from keeping families dependent on processed foods.
Facebook groups are popping up where carnivore families share tips on school lunches featuring rotisserie chicken, pork rinds, and hard-boiled eggs instead of whatever the school district's food service company is pushing.⁸
These parents are doing something radical in 2025 - they're thinking for themselves instead of blindly following whatever the latest government nutrition guidelines tell them to do.
The medical community's split reaction tells you everything you need to know. Half of them recognize that humans didn't evolve eating processed baby food from jars. The other half can't handle parents making decisions without government approval.
At the end of the day, parents have been successfully raising healthy children for thousands of years without input from federal agencies and food corporations. Maybe it's time we remembered that.