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!

I think vegetarianism was the least of his issues SH.

Good lord, that man had issues!!

Picante..but those vegetarians that eat the veggie way because they believe that diet to be truely more healthy would not want to give their child something they see as potential harmful...

tbh....I think you can be perfectly healthy eating vegetarian/vegan or be a meat eater...you just have to know what you are doing...

i think on the whole most vegetarian/vegan children have much healthier diets than a lot of meat-eating children.
beucase parents tend to need to think a lot more about what they feed them and how to meet their nutritional needs.
whereas people who eat meat just assume that that means everything is catered for and don't even think about it

ds2 is on a vegan diet because we are vegetarian and he is intolerant to egg and dairy. he is very, very healthy!

If I knew that ds had eaten meat, I wouldn't give a shit. I am not cooking it for him, as I will porbably poison him.
If I heard someone had stuck their fingers down their kid's throat, I'd report them to Social Services.

Psychotic behavior is not a usual side effect of vegetarianism for heaven's sake!

plus pic! lol

YABTU and more than a little short sighted

I think it's ok to not cook them meat, allow them to have meat in yor home

but when they are older you have to let them make up their mind

so if they want to go to macdonalds and eat burgers I can't see how you can sstop them

just as if you are against shoppign in tesco and bottle feeding they might gorw up to do both of those things

As long as children are getting everything they need physically, how they get it is nobody's business but their parent's.

What i really don't understand is how animals are a big no no but fish are ok to eat for some vegatarians, fish is still a form of meat and it's still killing, so why is it ok to eat it?

isn#t there another thread for that?? lol

If you are veggie, then you DO NOT eat fish.
If you eat fish, you are a piscetarian.
I used to be a piscetarian. I am now a proper veggie though!

Seriously, it is not really anyone else's business, is it? I do not go around lecturing others on the rights and wrongs of meat eating/fish eating/whatever, so why should anyone question my ethical choices?

yeah, i was reading them both at the same time and posted it on the wrong one, silly me

i'm not questioning your choices, really up to you.

however know lots of vegatarians out there who eat fish and say they are a vegatarian not a piscetarian, sorry never heard of that before

Oh, and for me, the rationale was that I was willing to kill a fish (and have done so) but not so with mammals and birdds.
I realise that argument is incredibly flawed and tbh, being a veggie doesn't add up 100%, because the dairy industry isn't exactly kind to animals, but it is what I am comfortable with. If others are happy eating meat/fish, the they should go ahead and do so!

x-post.

Well, if they are calling themselves veggie, then they are kidding themselves. I always called myself a piscetarian. It is misleading to say you are veggie then tuck into a tuna sarnie - no wonder people get pissed off!

To quote (probably badly) one of my favourite films: "Of course I knew you were going to be vegetarian. I didn't just wake up one morning and find we'd run out of sausages. I do all the cooking and since I don't like cooking meat, I don't."

Fair enough

pmsl laughing at the idea that all veggie children are thin and pale. I know a fair few veggie children due to sending my children to an alternative primary school, and a fair number of them are actually on the slightly portly side, and very much hale and hearty. There are also plenty of really unhealthy pasty omnivorous children.

A healthy overall lifestyle is key here- balanced diet (mostly based on vegetables even for omnivores) and plenty of exercise.

I have just read the other thread

OP you are being farking VU, the other thread wasn't even about vegetarianism, it was about contaminated food you half wit

Sorry, but I had to laugh at your op!

"Unless for religious reasons. "

Don't inflict your eating choices on your children unless you need to due to the religious choices you are imposing on them.

YABU. It is up to the individual. We all guide our children in ways that are important to us. (I'm not veggie btw)

YABVVVVVU
It's not mean. Meat is an optional part of anyone's diet (apart from those with certain health issues) and it's not part of my culture. If you don't have it you don't miss it and I for one (and my brothers for two, three, four and five) are all happy that we never had it.
parents make all kids of decisions for their children, as long as they don't insist on them when the kids are old enough to make up their own minds that's fine. Meat is really not necessary.

(parents of a vegetarian (so far, but will be pescatarian) son)

They are weak and listless and continually crave sugar due to lack of protein
That's a fact

Oh good gawd, I know it wasn't the vegetarianism wasn't the issue there, the bloke was a nutter. And I was far too young to know about social services, otherwise I would have reported him like a shot.

As for the OP - I'm a confirmed carnivore I'm afraid. I could literally walk round an abbatoir eating a burger

But people are entitled to bring up their children how they wish, surely? If the child is happy and comfortable having a veggie diet, then it's all good. It's no different than preventing your dc from drinking Coke.