That's awesome though! It's been 12 years for me (we aren't counting my pregnancy with Soph... That wasn't my decision, that was all her. xD). Alex has only known me as a veggie - and when I asked him to make sure that I got enough steak for me too he looked at me like I had grown two heads. Heh.
My twin wanted to try being veggie YEARS ago - so I started with him. He gave up but I stuck with it.
@Livi
That's really cool. :D I love the way I feel when I don't eat meat, so I know I'll be a veggie for a long while.
I am currently only eating fruits and veggies and nothing else.
@Amane
Yes, I mean 1920s.
I really wish we still lived like we did in the 1920s. The only problem is, we wouldn't have Mene!
They recently remade it with 3D characters, but I prefer the original 2D cartoon!
edit; It was also a series of children's books that I also LOVED dearly.
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Ava: It makes me laugh how my youngest, the biggest meat lover ever... Looks at me when she realizes I don't have meat. Lol. Not judgemental more like "I don't get it."
It's also important to keep in mind too that some people's bodies need more than the veggie diet can give them. Let your children grow up being able to decide what diet they prefer instead of making them be one way or the other.
In my perfect world my whole family wouldn't eat meat, but did I get that? Sadly no.
Oh yes, I definitely plan to do that. But I think while they are young I would prefer them to be taught a vegetarian diet first, then should they later decide they want to eat meat, they can.
I've been reading a lot of blogs and books about vegan parenting and a lot of the parents say they raise their children vegan, they tell their child about how veganism helps the planet, helps save animals they love, etc, and then they let their child make the decision on whether or not they want to eat meat. Most of the time, their children choose not to eat meat.
I wouldn't raise my child vegan, only because I feel that we help animals and they help us. Chickens need to lay eggs to stay healthy, if we didn't help raise chickens, sometimes they become congested with eggs and can die with so many eggs built up inside of them. That's a terrible death, imo. So chickens need farmers to help them lay eggs. At least, in a proper farm where they are free range and are not limited to cages. Also, cows need to be milked or they will be in pain. I mean, it's a two way street. We need animals, they need us. So that is why I wouldn't raise my child vegan, but I would vegetarian.
Oh, Ava. You'd have a weird hippie husband, children who never age past infancy, and small wild animals under your porch step. All with folk anti-war songs playing in the background. While Menelaus: chills in your room—the exact same way as he is now, whatever species he is—reading printed copies of your Loki x Horse fanfictions, giving them a friendly peer critique in red ink.
I just know that we do give my girls veggie things from time to time - that's what their lunch was, but they never were fully vegetarian. None of my family is. I'm the only one, but Alex does have a great set of Veggie meals that he makes. So good! <3 He's the main cook here.
But shush, we don't tell them how we sneak veggies into things they normally eat to get them to eat them. They'd probably not like to know how we trick them to eat those 'yucky green things' as my oldest calls them. xD
Me? Oh, I'm too fluid. I'd have a world that shifted to match my current mood. Cities at various times of day, dark mansions, solitude in infinite spaces… all with music to match, of course. Preferably with bass drops. I'd have hair that made Rapunzel's look like a bob, and none of my clothes would be plain.
I don't know who Patrick Stewart is, but I done did it. I'm finally filling blue cards on my Chinese gaem again.
But shush, we don't tell them how we sneak veggies into things they normally eat to get them to eat them. They'd probably not like to know how we trick them to eat those 'yucky green things' as my oldest calls them. xD
That reminds me of when I was little and my parents and I would eat at Boston Market, apparently they used to put peas in the mashed potatoes but they mixed them up so well you'd never notice or taste it! The mashed potatoes was my favorite part of the Boston Market meal until I learned about the peas.
@Amane
Rapunzel hair would be a pain in the ass to brush! I have a wig that is 5 feet long and it's horrible to brush it! I hate brushing it because it makes it really tangled.
Patrick Stewart is the guy who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise in the series of Star Trek, The Next Generation.