Parenting Magazine Article....

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((( I just feel like we as vegetarian/vegan families have it difficult

enough in this world. Now parents are being told to feed their children meat as

their first food. I would like to know what research study this was and who it

was funded by. )))

 

Dawn,

I will go look up the article, but maybe you could do a form type letter

and we could all sign it with our names and locations?

I am REALLY not going to bother with there magazine any more. WOW.. That

is all I can say. You are so right when you say Vegie/Vegan parents have it

rough enough. It really makes me ill that a magazine would just throw that

article out there without nothing to say BUT... vegetarian babys do wonderful

too.

So many parents read that mag. too. It scares me !!!! No wonder I have to

defend myself all the time!

I actually cried one day when one of the football moms made a comment

about how she gave her baby girl chicken at 4 MONTHS OLD!!!! My husband thinks

I

am nuts, but whatever I walked away from the little chat. Later that week

I dropped several comments about never eating animals, if I caught someone

trying to feed her meat/dairy et that I would probably punch 'em in the head.

Of course I wouldn't hit anyone... maybe?? Seriously though people are

like.. she is her OWN person she can make her own choices. I just say of

course she can when she moves out of my house.

ARGHhhh Just frustrating ...

 

 

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On 4/15/08, keepuspurring <keepuspurring wrote:

 

" Seriously though people are

like.. she is her OWN person she can make her own choices "

 

 

I would prefer not to be such a smart * & ^ when I reply to this comment

myself, but I have been equating it to when my son comes home and wants to

drink alcohol, have sex in his room, smoke pot, cigarettes, try other drugs,

etc. People usually roll their eyes at me, but what do they not get about

children needing limits. What scares me a little is that my father, my SIL,

and my brother have all teased that once DS is old enough (only 13 mos now),

they can't wait to take him for his first Happy Meal. Luckily, DH (who is

omni, but supports raising DS vegan) has told them that if they do that,

they will not be allowed to be alone with our son or take him out for the

day.

 

Susan

 

 

 

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Hi Susan,

Well, years ago when my family made jokes about, and then even tried to,

feed our vegetarian cats meat products - we realized that jokes are just

a step away from actions in my family, at least. We knew then that we'd

have to supervise what happens around our pets and child (we didn't have

a child yet at the time). Now, we're super careful to find out what's

in all the food served as soon as we arrive at a family gathering, we

tell our son (in front of the rest of the family, to ensure that

everyone knows what we're talking about) " this dish has meat, and this

one, and we can eat all the rest. " At 3-1/2, he already understands.

And as adults, the rest of the family understands that it is absolutely

not acceptable for them to violate the policy we laid down about the

meat products - and they're really friendly now about making most of the

food vegetarian and telling us what they know has meat. Now, we have,

after the fact, found that my mom doesn't read labels well - and a

cracker had chicken broth in it, and a yogurt sauce had gelatin in it -

so we're reading labels of things now (and likely ticking her off to no

end), but that's just what we have to do. I think my family is now more

upset that we don't drink the kool-aid or sunny delight served. And

they haven't mentioned that we never leave our son alone with them . . .

 

Lorraine

 

 

On

Behalf Of Susan Williams

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:47 AM

 

Re: Re: Parenting Magazine Article....

 

On 4/15/08, keepuspurring@ <keepuspurring%40aol.com> aol.com

<keepuspurring@ <keepuspurring%40aol.com> aol.com> wrote:

 

" Seriously though people are

like.. she is her OWN person she can make her own choices "

 

I would prefer not to be such a smart * & ^ when I reply to this comment

myself, but I have been equating it to when my son comes home and wants

to

drink alcohol, have sex in his room, smoke pot, cigarettes, try other

drugs,

etc. People usually roll their eyes at me, but what do they not get

about

children needing limits. What scares me a little is that my father, my

SIL,

and my brother have all teased that once DS is old enough (only 13 mos

now),

they can't wait to take him for his first Happy Meal. Luckily, DH (who

is

omni, but supports raising DS vegan) has told them that if they do that,

they will not be allowed to be alone with our son or take him out for

the

day.

 

Susan