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

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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!

Yes, and the child will have the chance to make their decision based on their own morals & beliefs later. What is the problem?

YANBU Veggie children always look pale and thin

Right, so I should allow the DDs to steal, lie and be violent then should I, just to make sure I don't impose my own morals on them?

"orionine yes but it is still a wind up

Does it matter what the reason is for being vegetarian?

A vegetarian diet is generally healthier than on with meat. If you give your child a good quality vegetarian diet then you are benefitting them.
So why should they be given meat just to fit in with some societal norm?

Mrs Rufallo. I dare you to take a look at my girls and tell me they're pale and thin.

"Skinny pale" DD1 [[http://snoof.net/Albums/Album10/Large/20090301_-_Bouncing_in_front_of_Maya_s_castle.jpg "Skinny pale" DD2

YABU. Dd1 was veggie until she started school and then became veggie again; dd2 wasn't veggie, was a total carnivore and has now become veggie, aged 12. They are both equally healthy, although rather thin and pale. But I am pale and used to be rather pale and thin (still am pale!) but didn't become veggie until I was 16.

Dead animals are not a necessary part of anybody's diet but adults make all sorts of decisions for children because they are adults and children are not. Does the Op want me to let my children decide when they go to bed, how many hours they can watch crap on the television, whether to go to school or not etc etc. Ridiculous and surely a wind-up.

My two are on my profile looking very tanned and rather thin!

Ooops...

Skinny pale DD1
Skinny pale DD2
No energy to bounce, poor things!

I can't believe that people are so bothered about other parenting choices. When DSs have a veggie child over for tea, I cook something veggie. When they have a gluten-free child over, I cook GF. Ditto non-dairy.

It's called respecting other people's choices. It doesn't have any impact on me or my family, it is not harming the child so what does it matter?

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

BUT

YABU to make an exception for religious reasons...

...said the vegetarian!

Riven - I love your ds2's hair!

Oh, ffs.
We all 'inflict' our beliefs on our kids re: food, leisure activities, education, values, religion, etc, etc.
Mind your own OP. It has fuck all to do with you.

I like to give my children raw red meat just to fill their colons in the hope that they will be at more risk from bowel cancer ffs.

Of course YABU

I do think that being vegetarianism needs to be better researched than just cutting meat out, it needs to be a full and balanced diet, like all diets.

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YABU. How can someone be a vegetarian but then cook meat for their DCs - that would be hypocritical.

BTW - I am vv peeved at all this threads about threads malarky - there are 2 threads now about a very reasonable AIBU about meat in a fish pie.

I may well flounce.

(I know, I know, nobody gives a stuff if I flounce emoticon!)

I make all kinds of decisions for DS, being a veggie is just one of them. When he's old enough, I'll tell him why I choose not to eat meat and let him make up his own mind.

Oh, and a big ROFL at DS being pale and thin - he's tall and strong and very healthy, just like his vegetarian parents.

Ha! While writing this post, DP has just told me that he accidentally ate bacon today. He had crisps that actually had powdered bacon in. He says they were lovely...

A few years back, I knew a couple where he was veggie and she wasn't. During both her pregnancies he wouldn't 'allow' her to eat meat More fool her, obviously. The children were then brought up vegetarian.

One day, these naughty girls where we lived, gave the dd a chipolata and told her it was a veggie sausage... she ate it and loved it. Then they told her the truth and understandably, she was really upset and told her dad.

He stuck his fingers down her throat until she was sick, so that her body got rid of the meat

Revolting. Just vile. And to be honest, that has clouded my view of this subject ever since. Although I do realise IABU to do so.