Comments on: Veg Kids And Non-Veg Meal Times http://www.vegansoapbox.com/veg-kids-and-non-veg-meal-times/ vegan theory, vegan activism, vegan video, vegan food and vegan resources for vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal liberationists, and abolitionists Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Convenient Vegan http://www.vegansoapbox.com/veg-kids-and-non-veg-meal-times/comment-page-1/#comment-6118 Convenient Vegan Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:14:39 +0000 http://www.vegansoapbox.com/?p=5218#comment-6118 Last night I attended a vegan potluck and talked with D, a fellow veg meetup member who was there with his combined family. His wife of three years had a child of her own and the two of them were omnivores, while D and the second child were vegan, and his intent for the breast-fed baby was that he, too, would be vegan. D is determined that his biological children will be vegan, but they are currently too young to understand why their sister can eat some things that they cannot. D, of course, hopes that over time his wife and his stepdaughter will move away from animal products entirely, and they have indeed reduced their consumption of these items. Until that time, though, he's treading on some tricky ground in terms of how his children perceive him and his demands for their diets. We talked of ways he can introduce the animals' rights perspective to them. He brings them to places where they can see animals and talk about them, and he hopes to make trips to places like Farm Sanctuary, where they can interact with farm animals and discover for themselves that they are worthy of living their own lives and not being eaten. I am not close enough to D to be offering wholesale advice but I'd be interested in what others make of this situation. Last night I attended a vegan potluck and talked with D, a fellow veg meetup member who was there with his combined family. His wife of three years had a child of her own and the two of them were omnivores, while D and the second child were vegan, and his intent for the breast-fed baby was that he, too, would be vegan.

D is determined that his biological children will be vegan, but they are currently too young to understand why their sister can eat some things that they cannot. D, of course, hopes that over time his wife and his stepdaughter will move away from animal products entirely, and they have indeed reduced their consumption of these items. Until that time, though, he’s treading on some tricky ground in terms of how his children perceive him and his demands for their diets.

We talked of ways he can introduce the animals’ rights perspective to them. He brings them to places where they can see animals and talk about them, and he hopes to make trips to places like Farm Sanctuary, where they can interact with farm animals and discover for themselves that they are worthy of living their own lives and not being eaten.

I am not close enough to D to be offering wholesale advice but I’d be interested in what others make of this situation.

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