I got told today I shouldn’t raise kids because I’d purposefully raise them in a vegan household, without animal products of any sort. I was told this would be dangerous and unfair to the kids.
It was a weirdly direct thing for this person to say to me (one of my coworkers). It’s stuck in my head. I was told I should let my potential children choose what sort of morals they have, even though this person is raising their kids Catholic. Their advice to me was to allow my potential kids to choose every night between a meat-based meal and a vegan meal (???). And several other coworkers agreed. Where do they come up with this? No carnist raises their kids like this.
So is anyone raising vegan kids or does anyone know about what it’s like? Or was anyone here raised in a vegan household?
I don’t think it’s necessarily abuse to guide what a kid eats. They can’t have Doritos for every meal, even if that’s what they want. I don’t want to have a household that participates in the animal industry, so I’d hope a kid would understand that.
Also it seems like kids raised vegan might end up with a distaste for meat anyway