Picture a one-year-old gnawing on a ribeye like it’s a teething toy. That’s the reality for a growing set of parents who are raising “carnivore babies”—infants who skip purées and go straight to slabs of beef, sticks of butter, and whipped bone marrow.

In New Jersey, Angelena Minniti-Stampone told the New York Post her daughter, Capri, started lunging for meat at six months. “She literally snatches the meat out of my mouth,” Minniti-Stampone said.

Capri’s appetite has since become a family trademark, one her mother believes will help her grow up free from the body-image baggage of the ‘90s diet culture she remembers all too well.

Parents posting these meat-heavy baby meals see them as primal, nutrient-dense, and immune to the processed junk marketed to kids. Evelyn Flores from Sunnyside

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