Hello,
I'm sure lots of people have been through this already so I just thought I'd ask how others have dealt with it!
Our nanny, annoyingly, bought a DVD for our children called "Gordie" about a talking pig who rescues his family from the sausage factory. It's quite graphic - lots of whirring circular saws, knives being sharpened, piglets squealing. Pretty bl**dy awful actually - and the rest of the film is dire too.
Rather understandably, DS is now very upset and doesn't want to eat any animals. He's refused sausages and went white as a sheet when I answered his question honestly about what meatballs where (as he'd eaten those at school yesterday for lunch).
I've tried to say that animals can't really talk, don't have feelings like us and that they are happy and well looked after in farms (and even that it doesn't hurt when they are killed...
). However, I do have massive sympathy for him and can understand what looks like his desire to become a vegetarian.
But, being a very busy/lazy parent, I don't really want him to stick to a vegetarian diet just yet (if ever) and am quite sure it would be even harder to get him to eat a balanced diet with enough protein and iron in it for a growing boy.
We haven't yet had a full stop refusal to eat meat but I sense it might be coming. I'm trying to head it off. Any ideas?!
Thank you...