I got told today I shouldn’t raise kids because I’d purposefully raise them in a vegan household, without animal products of any sort. I was told this would be dangerous and unfair to the kids.
It was a weirdly direct thing for this person to say to me (one of my coworkers). It’s stuck in my head. I was told I should let my potential children choose what sort of morals they have, even though this person is raising their kids Catholic. Their advice to me was to allow my potential kids to choose every night between a meat-based meal and a vegan meal (???). And several other coworkers agreed. Where do they come up with this? No carnist raises their kids like this.
So is anyone raising vegan kids or does anyone know about what it’s like? Or was anyone here raised in a vegan household?
Veganism is the healthiest diet a kid can eat, cornonary heart disease starts in childhood on a meat heavy diet. But more importantly you instill your morals to your children, you teach them it’s wrong to eat meat. Children are actually really receptive to veganism because we’re naturally animal lovers and it’s not hard to explain where meat comes from.
Sure they can experiment as they grow up, that’s natural and we live in a meat centric society. But that’s the risk you take in parenthood, your child is their own person and they can make their decisions as they grow up.