An update to my thoughts: was Family Farms

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I never liked meat and gave it up because I hate cooking it, and I have never

really missed

it. I find it difficult to eat meat since I've gone primarily without for the

last seven years. I

also have tried to live each spring and summer as vegan as I can because of

allergies,

again for about the last seven years.

 

I've had some periods where I spent months on end as vegan, and loved what I ate

and

how I felt and what I cooked.

 

But I have a daughter now, and a husband who eats meat without a second thought.

(I

always have second thoughts-- even with eggs and cheese.) But my motives were

never

ethical, though I've tried to make choices that leant themselves to the least

harm.

 

I want my daughter to have a healthy lifestyle, and I know she has no need for

animal

products if I feed her well. She will be a year old next month and weaned soon

and I need

to make up my mind what I will feed her when it comes to dairy. And my husband's

family

occassionally gives her chicken.

 

She drinks unsweetened soy milk already. She's a good eater. If I give my

daughter eggs,

cheese and milk, I feel better if I see the animals for myself and judge their

conditions.

Becuase in my mind well-treated animals will be healthy animals, and not

diseased, not

filthy and provide safer products. But I won't succumb to conventional " wisdom "

that says

she needs cow milk three times a day (or whatever), after all she's not a baby

cow. But I

may feed her the occassional egg or piece of cheese as a protein source.