Guest guest Posted May 3, 2003 Report Share Posted May 3, 2003 Hi Jewel, I have a two and a half y.o. daughter raised vegan from birth. She is larger and taller than average, and is doing fine. It's funny that some meat eaters think you're 'forcing' your beliefs/practices on your kids, but they do the same: religion, meat-eating etc. without any choices being given. Tom - " Jewel " <gimmiesomemirth Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:53 PM Re: forcing diets on our pets....... > That's exactly how we felt about it and why we decided to raise our > daughter vegan right from the start. If she chooses to eat meat > when she's old enough to make her own choices and buy her own food > then that's her decision, but I'd rather start her off healthy and > give her the best start possible. So far we haven't received any > flack about it from anyone at all. (She's only 8 months old though, > I'm sure there will be lots of time for that). > > Jewel > > > > > > Yes. And I'd have loved to have been a vegan from birth. It must > be a > > wonderful feeling to be able to say that never in your life have > you used or > > eaten an animal product. It seems to me that it would be better to > raise a > > child vegan and give them the choice to change when they grow > older, than > > vice versa. But then I guess it would seem that way to me! > > > > John > > > > > > To send an email to - > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Good to hear, Graham. Tom - " quercusrobur2002 " <grahamburnett Friday, May 02, 2003 6:33 AM Re: vegan kids. > , " Vegecentric " <vegecentric@o...> > wrote: > > Hi Jewel, > > I have a two and a half y.o. daughter raised vegan from birth. She > is larger > > and taller than average, and is doing fine. It's funny that some > meat eaters > > think you're 'forcing' your beliefs/practices on your kids, but > they do the > > same: religion, meat-eating etc. without any choices being given. > > > > We've got 4 children aged between 5 years and 17 years, all life > vegan, all bright, healthy and happy. We've never had any grief > about them being vegan. > > Graham > > > > To send an email to - > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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