to think parents shouldn't bring their child up vegetarian?

[Picante]

Unless for religious reasons.

Yes this is a thread about a thread but I think I was annoying too many people over there so I've started my very own for people to get annoyed with me here!

I just think it's mean. Meat is such a huge part of our culture and fair enough if you're old enough to decide that you don't want to kill animals... but children should be given all sorts of food in the early years, including meat, until they are old enough to make that decision for themselves!

Quorn is lovely to me

and bint, good point! I've never thought of it like that

Many people also don't realise that children are capable of making decisions from a young age, I've also met veggies who's parents decided that they were too young to decide their diet until they were in highschool or even their teens and early adulthood. Seriously? I'm glad my parents allowed me to choose so young (whether they thought that it was a phase or not lol), though I'm not glad with their feeding habits from then on, I am lad that they gave me that decision as it has been a huge learning curve in my life.

I would let them decide at a young age. I would have been prepared to cook vegetarian for mine at a young age, but the proviso would have been that they ate vegetables. It didn't crop up as it happens.
If I was vegetarian that is all they would get at home, but if they were out at someone's house I would let them have free choice. If they had school dinners they would have a free choice from the menu. Unless they have actively decided for themselves they are not vegetarians, they are the DCs of vegetarians.
It is like Christians-they will be bringing up a DC as a Christian, but until the DC actively decides for themselves they are merely a DC of Christians.
Being open minded is much more likely to get the result you want than being dogmatic, which is counter productive (at least it is if you have a DC like me!)I am afraid that parents going on about 'disgusting dead flesh' would make me want to eat meat.If they quietly got on with it, and didn't make it an issue, I would be much more likely to follow-there wouldn't be anything to rebel against.

'YANBU. Children should decide themselves. Parents shouldn't deprive their kids of sausages, It's part of growing up'

i agree tosh,but also hahahahaha,my poor deprived children.(or do veggie sausages count as not deprived?)