vegan children

May 22, 2004

In the car tonight I brought up something to my boyfriend that has been in my mind for awhile. I definitely want to raise my children...when i do have them...vegan. I said to him...the meat eater...hypathetically speaking, if we were to get married and have kids, how would you feel about me raising them vegan? i said and then when they are older, obviously they can make their own decisions. he said well why not raise them both ways and then they can decide when they are older. i think to raise them pure and with no animals in them, then that is the best way to do it, you can't take back what they once put inside of them. i think it is kind of, in some strange way, like piercings. i would never pierce my child's ears when they are younger. if they want them when they are older and can make their own decisions, then fine, but if i were to have that done to them, and then later in life they wish they never had them done, then they

wouldn't have to worry about that. you can't undo what is already done.

he went out to say that there will be meat in the house, so it wouldn't be right to have it in the house, but they can't have it. and i told him that i wouldn't cook any meat and i wouldn't buy any meat. if he wanted it he would have to go to the store himself and cook it himself. he said fine, if that's the way, then it would be the same and i wouldn't buy any vegan foods. not meaning buy as in money, but just pick the stuff up, because obviously we would be sharing the money. but i said that it is not the same at all because i don't want to touch and look at that stuff, and i don't support it so i am not going to watch the money get wasted on it.

later he explained to me that he doesn't believe in veganism. he said that that is the reason why animals were put on this earth, not to just walk around and take up space. and then he told me that if he wanted to become vegan, he will do it on his own, he doesn't want me pushing him into it...which i never do, but because i started saying how i don't understand how he thinks it is fine to kill and torture animals just to satisfy your tastebuds he says that i shouldn't say it that way. out of sight, out of mind seems to be his motto.

we both have talk about wanting a farm and i asked him if he would eat the animals and he said no. he would just buy it, but keep the animals as pets. he said he would never kill any animal, but he still will eat them. and he says that while humans think they are on the top of the food chain, we aren't and that it is just a circle and that lions would eat us too. blah blah blah, long conversation.

very long conversation, went into pollution, and so many other things.

i love him to death, absolutely, i just wonder what people do in situations like this. when you marry a meat-eater, how do you deal with children, how do you solve...or try to solve the issue? i don't think i can watch my children eating animals.

also just a little thing before i go...if you reply to this, please don't say anything bad about my boyfriend, i guess i did present his case to be bad, but still i don't want to read anything bashing or anything like that on him. just incase anybody had an urge to, he is his own person. the thing is though...i could see him becoming a vegan evenutally...i'm not sure if that is a bad thing to assume. once he lets himself actually see what is going on, he tries to hide it and deny because i think he knows he will cut it all out of his life once he lets all the truth in.

(didn't mean to sound like a bitch at the end, i just don't know how people will reply, and just don't want to hear bad things, i'm sure you all know what i mean. )

Thanks a lot

-Samantha

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