To think vegetarian mums are selfish?

[lisabd345]

There's a woman on my Facebook who has a son 6 years old.
She's a vegetarian and she's made sure her son is too.
She's just posted that her son is suffering from iron deficiency and GP has said it's probably due to his diet and the fact he doesn't eat meat....and the GP has gave him medication to take every day and he is crying about it ..so she's asking what to feed him to bring iron levels up.
Aibu to think he should make a decision when he's older if he wants to be vegetarian and not have it forced upon him?

I think that a child should be able to choose if they're vegetarian or not. Fine if the mum doesn't want to cook meat at home but if a kid wanted to eat it at school or elsewhere that's their choice.

Yeah bollocks that was on your Facebook

Have a vegan biscuit

A vegetarian diet is not necessarily healthier if you are living of pizza, chips and toast etc.
I'm an ex veggie and vegan and I agree op. Children should be open to ALL food groups and make their own ethical decisions.
I have this attitude to religion too. .in going to let dd choose so didn't get her christened.

So meat is NOT a good group now????? Does it come under protein?
Dsd is bought up veggie and she has often expressed envy that we can eat meat...and felt guilty when she tried some.

My personal feelings are that people can eat whatever makes them happy, but with children I personally think a healthy omnivorous diet gives their bodies the nutrients they need, being vegetarian or vegan requires a lot of knowledge about food, body biochemistry and many cannot be trusted to get this right for themselves let alone a growing baby - saying that it's not good either to grow a child on a crap diet whether that's omnivorous or otherwise - feeding a baby takes common sense and a bit of insight if restricting certain items from a diet and clearly she's not for this so needs to educate herself

On the other hand i know kids who are staunch vegan by choice when parents aren't. That is to be applauded!

@lisabd345 you're FB friend lacks knowledge of a healthy diet, not because she's vegetarian but because she's ill educated in healthy diets. Rather than decide the iron deficiency is due to not eating meat why not suggest she increase the leafy green veggies and orange juice? You won't because you've decided that only meat will improve her diet! You are therefore equally as ill educated.

@SalemBlackCat you seem to hold a lot of anger and venom towards vegetarians??? Really quite odd! Are we really to believe that marauding crowds of vegetarians or vegans are beating others up to obtain funds to give them access to meat products.,....

Also OP has posted a very inflammatory thread and disappeared.......

Unless she's still here with a name change fail?

I myself am not vegetarian but find this thread ridiculous in that people cannot understand other people's decisions to not eat meat! It's just bizarre that people get angry about other people's life choices. Especially ones that don't affect them and they can live perfectly health lives doing.

You’ll think I’m the devil incarnate then.

I’m vegan and we have brought our 11 year old DS up as vegan since birth.

DS has a full varied diet and has never been deficient in anything.

It’s definitely not selfish to give your child a diet that is healthier, kinder and better for the environment.

What is selfish is being a lazy parent and not giving your children a nutrient rich and varied diet, whether it happens to include meat or not.

@JollyAndBright good post! Well said!

@Charlie97 Wrong. Why are you shooting the messenger? I am simply saying the reality of what happens. And I said a COUPLE (meaning TWO) of children were beating up others for sweets and money. I didn't mention meat. How two turns into 'marauding crowds', well you seem to have a bit of anger to exaggerate and blow up what I said.

@JollyAndBright The problem is vegan diet is NOT healthier, not at all. It is very unhealthy and very dangerous. So it is selfish that you are giving your child a very unhealthy diet as well as forcing your views down their throat.

@SalemBlackCat I think your EIGHT posts and use of CAPITALS throughout prove your ridiculous views on a vegetarian or vegan diet!

Wrong!

The problem is vegan diet is NOT healthier, not at all. It is very unhealthy and very dangerous

The NHS disagrees with you. Like any diet, a vegan diet can be healthy or unhealthy.

@PurpleDaisies A statement by the NHS via pressure from minority groups (ie in this context, vegans) does not prove the diet is healthy. GPs privately will tell you they don't believe it is healthy.

@SalemBlackCat that was me not @JollyAndBright.

Calm down.

@SalemBlackCat all GPS will privately tell you that? No GP is vegan?

Righty oh!

I know @Charlie97 it was a c/p fail. But do entertain yourself with small things in order to avoid the substance. Any typos (by my c/p of your name fail) of mine you want to point out? Any spelling errors?

@Charlie97 Calm down, I never said 'all'. You appear to have a habit of verballing people don't you?

GPs privately will tell you they don't believe it is healthy.

What all of them? Some of my gp friends are vegan and their kids eat vegan. I was a doctor. Nothing wrong with a vegan diet done correctly.

@SalemBlackCat I find it laughable that you're clearly very aggressive but you decide that all vegans are bullies!

Once again, meat is not a food group. It is one option within a food group.

A vegetarian diet is a balanced diet, it is also an omnivorous diet as it includes dairy and egg.

There is nothing at all wrong with feeding your children a balanced healthy varied diet that also is vegetarian.

@PurpleDaisies your GP friends can't be vegan!! They just can't, ALL of them will tell you privately it's an unhealthy diet!

@Charlie97 Take a look at your own behaviour regarding aggressive. Need a mirror? I find your level of aggression and hostility laughable. You've more front than..... insert whatever store/place.