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My good mate has a daughter in London that has just given birth to his first granddaughter and both the babies parents were raised meat and vege but are now both vegan. Do vegan parents bring their kids up vegan?? I hope they don't?? Thoughts????

Russ
 
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My daughter was encouraged by her school to become vegetarian at age 6. I was not impressed (the other three family members were all meat eaters) but I did not complain. She came to visit when she was about 24 and I asked her if she wanted me to obtain any specific foods for her. Her answer "Don't be daft Dad, I gave that up years ago. How could anyone be expected to go through life without bacon?"
 
Its perfectly possible but personally I'd strongly advise breast feeding for as long as possible - up to two years preferably. Otherwise soya formula can be used.

My daughter was encouraged by her school to become vegetarian at age 6.
How strange - I've never come across a school promoting vegetarianism (unless there are some specialist private sector schools that I don't know of). I turned vegetarian a 10 and it was a nightmare in those days. The free school meals I got were very limited!
 
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How strange - I've never come across a school promoting vegetarianism (unless there are some specialist private sector schools that I don't know of). I turned vegetarian a 10 and it was a nightmare in those days. The free school meals I got were very limited!

As far as I remember she was shown pictures/videos of calves being slaughtered. I shall ask her if she remembers.
 
What were you able to eat from them: the occasional fruit and vegetable, and maybe bread? In the case of school lunches, your decision saved you from trying to eat whatever it was that they tried to pass off as meat.

They made me special plates which usually consisted of a large slab of processed (rubbery) cheese in place of the meat. Then I just got all the vegetables with it. Could have been worse.
 
As far as I remember she was shown pictures/videos of calves being slaughtered. I shall ask her if she remembers.

Actually the class was shown a video of chickens being slaughtered for food. She still is reluctant to eat chicken (which I didn't know).
 
I turned vegetarian at the age of 11. Until then the only real meat I had was ham or kidney. I do remember we used to enjoy lamb burghers even my Grannie could get hold of them. I didn't miss meat at all primarily because it featured very infrequently in our lives until my mother remarried.

A senior school, the canteen used to keep a cheese and salad bap aside for me and we're under orders from the headmistress to make me one up no matter what if it wasn't there got some reason. It was also reported if I didn't eat it. Staff would watch to make sure I actually ate.

Bacon was never of interest to me.

As for raising infants as vegans, meat Easter may see it as a problem but those who have actually followed s vegan diet for any length of time will tell you it isn't a problem. It is perfectly possible to raise an infant and then a child on a vegan diet and for them to be just as healthy as any other child.

The problem only arises if they are ill informed on nutrition and where to get protein from. But that is also true of any meat eating parents as well. In fact the likelihood is that on a vegan diet the child will be far more aware of nutrition and follow a good diet in the years to come than a kid who days anything, literally. Just take a look around when you're next out on the streets, there's plenty of evidence around about poor examples of what to and what not to eat. You only need to look at peoples waistlines. And following a vegan diet is likely more healthy than a vegetarian one because vegans don't fall for the assumption that replacing may with dairy (usually in the form of cheese) is actually healthier. Remember cheese is 1/3rd fat.

I think the child will be healthier than most personally.
And if I was raising an infant, they would be vegan as well.
 
Actually the class was shown a video of chickens being slaughtered for food. She still is reluctant to eat chicken (which I didn't know).
Slightly better than what sent myself and another girl over to being vegetarian.
Still relates to chickens but dissecting chick embryos whilst they are in the shell, having to kill them first. And then those chicks that weren't needed were then hatched out. The other girl and I were not in the school dance competition, so had lessons as normal that day but with only 2 of us in the class. The last lesson of the day was biology followed by the ecology after school group which the biology teacher ran and we were both in. So we just cleaned out all of the schools animals enclosures etc,. Then when done we played with the chicks. Monday morning came and we went to see the chicks before assembly only to find out that they had been fed to another biology teacher's dogs over the weekend.
By the end of that term we were both vegetarian and are for the entire time we were at school (7 years).
 
Actually the class was shown a video of chickens being slaughtered for food. She still is reluctant to eat chicken (which I didn't know).

She's currently on holiday in Las Vegas and has eaten a steak that's so rare she says it's still "moo-ing".
 
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My good mate has a daughter in London that has just given birth to his first granddaughter and both the babies parents were raised meat and vege but are now both vegan. Do vegan parents bring their kids up vegan?? I hope they don't?? Thoughts????

Russ
At one time this would have filled me with dread. Now, I am inclined to agree with @SatNavSaysStraightOn - parents following a vegan diet are more likely to be nutritionally aware, thus resulting in healthier children.
 
I don't see how being raised vegan would be a problem if the mom and dad follow nutrition guildline. I can't see a vegan family raising meat eating children, especially if they are abstaining from meat for moral or environmental reasons. A vegan is not going to be cooking up meat. I'm vegetarian and would not cook up meat for someone as i am morally opposed to the killing of animals for consumption.
Most of the problems that occur with a vegan or vegetarian diet is when the person does not consider the nutrition behind their food. I had a friend who told me her daughter had become a vegetarian at college and had gotten very sick and the doctor told her to eat meat. I ask what did her daughter eat as a vegetarian and she said grits...i ask what else...she said that all, grits. I told her daughter wasn't a vegetarian she was a grititarian and that was the reason for her poor health not vegetarianism.
 
Very grey area I know, kinda like God fearing couples dragging their kids around knocking on doors. Preaching the bible. I'm against that, kind of like kids are brain washed. Last time I had a couple adults and 2 kids knock on my door, I told them your kids should be playing sport, not banging on my door preaching. They took off pretty quick.

Russ
 
Very grey area I know, kinda like God fearing couples dragging their kids around knocking on doors. Preaching the bible. I'm against that, kind of like kids are brain washed. Last time I had a couple adults and 2 kids knock on my door, I told them your kids should be playing sport, not banging on my door preaching. They took off pretty quick.

Russ
It's probably a quite contentious area Russ. Passing down "conventional" wisdoms to our kids is considered as perfectly acceptable. Passing down unconventional lifestyle ideas can be seen a decidedly dodgy. Unfortunately, in food terms this has not turned out well. Conventional wisdom has resulted in generations whose normality is filled with big macs, coca cola, doughnuts and confectionery.
 
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