VegetarianSlimming Roll Call - Please respond! -aromalady_us

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for your most engaging response! You made me smile bigtime this

morning.

 

Delighted that we will be hearing more from you - all those years as a

vegetarian means

some excellent experience you can pass on to newer members. About the kids, I

stay out

of such arguments because I can see both sides.

 

EXAMPLE: *My* son was a vegetarian from toddler until he was about six or seven

- his

choice as soon as he was able to distinguish the taste of me*t in food. Eggs and

cheese,

fine. But meat? No way! And he was the *only* vegetarian in the household. When

he got

old enough to read a little - around three - he would go through his picture

books and

recite the names of the animals and say he didn't eat his friends. (He had a

large stuffed

animal and plastic animal collection like most kids which, an only child, he had

always

called 'my friends'.) Yeah, he said that. He really said it. And we knew NO

vegetarians.

After he'd been going to school a couple of years, he learned to eat meat -

taught no

doubt that that's what animals were for. He still eats meat. Whereas we're now

vegetarian.

Go figure.

 

About soy: As far as I can see the jury is still out - I still say, be moderate.

No need to go

overboard on the stuff - we use it, but probably less than we use beans and

lentils. But it

would be interesting to hear other views on this.

 

Best love, Pat