me! but i would call myself a non-meat/fish eater. somewhere in my head i only allow myself to consider "proper" vegetarians as being vegans. or fruitarians (and they're just weird. no, i'm kidding, if there are any fruitarians out there :S) i eat Haribo sweets anyway so, yeah, i suck.
something we do in childcare little debates seeing as your a vegetarian if you ever have kids would you "force" them to be veggie or let them have own choice...
"They say time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessons, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
I wouldn't force them to do anything. My beliefs are my own, and I do think it's unfair to force your children to adhere to your behaviour. However, I would provide them with both meat and non-meat based meals, so that they can learn to cook both types, and still get the nutritional balance.
It bugs me when people say "but how can you live without meat?!" - it's not essential, especially considering the vast amounts of meat substitutes that there are now, and you can have really quite lovely meals without relying on meat, too.
something we do in childcare little debates seeing as your a vegetarian if you ever have kids would you "force" them to be veggie or let them have own choice...
Do non-vegetarians debate on whether to force their children to eat meat or not? I don't think so.
I think in a few thousand years virtually everyone will be vegetarian, our evolution seems to be swinging that way.
Plus it doesn't kill the planet and it's way more energy efficient.
And it's cheaper, woo!
I'm a vegetarian in case no one's worked it out yet.
My sister and I have been vegetarian since birth. My Mum is vegetarian. However when we went to school and had school dinners we had the choice of wether we wanted to remain vegetarian or not. I think that was the most sensible way of doing things, after all it's a lot of hassle to cook more than one meal for a family and I also think offering kids too many options encourages fussiness and faddy eating. We were always made to eat what was put in front of us and as a result there are only a few things that I dislike.
Also vegetarianism is so much healthier for you than eating meat, to me it's kind of like asking if you'd feed your kids healthy meals or cook them junkfood sometimes as they should make their own decision. Sure when they're old enough to go out and have it with friends or cook it themselves in the house, but I'd never provide them with meat or junk food.
i wouldn't cook my children meat. but i would certainly allow my husband to (if he was comfortable with it) and my children can of course choose to eat meat whilst we are out or visiting other families.
to be honest, i think as a child it is much more important that you get a good, healthy, balanced diet rather than choosing your diet all the time. i got what i was given as a kid. if i didn't eat it, i didn't eat. i grew up healthy. it's only being in charge of my own diet that i've messed up.
something we do in childcare little debates seeing as your a vegetarian if you ever have kids would you "force" them to be veggie or let them have own choice...
My daughter (age 2) has never eaten meat. I intend to let her choose though, when she goes to school, when she understands that meat comes from animals. She's perfectly healthy, she gets all her nutrients from other sources (pulses, etc). I actually think that vegetarian children often get a better diet than meat eating children. That's because vegetarian parents are often better informed as to what makes a healthy diet. Also because they can be paranoid about the kid becoming deficient, so they make sure their diet is well rounded. Meat eaters sometimes just assume 'we eat meat we must be getting everything we need' and don't pay as much attention to their childrens' diets.
Ooo I'm a vegetarian hehe ^-^
I did a cookery course and stood in squid guts so I think that did it for me really but I had never liked the idea of eating animals xD
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls,
but only that we had loved them and that they hadn't heard us calling,
still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time,
and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
