How many people have been feeding their 6 month old meat? My understanding was that it was recommended that?!
Answers: a parent start their child off on mashed vegetables and rice cerial? If that is the case a breast fed baby would be a vegan anyway so why do people make inappropriate comments to parents on this forum who want to raise a vegan OR vegetarian baby? One pathetic example of a couple of mentally ill people who killed their new born by feeding it breast milk, apple juice and soy milk does not represent the 1000s of loving parents who raise vegan OR vegetarian children. What is all the ignorance about??
I know people are very brainwashed. I was recently told that I can be taken to jail for trying to raise my child vegetarian. I was raised vegetarian, I am now vegan.
Read my recent question and the crazy answers I got. There are people begging me to stop this sillness! And that I was being selfish and wrong and it was against god for me to rais eme child vegetarian! - you should read the responses, they are too funny!
edit:- I hope we will have achild in the next few Years. I was wondering, do you give your children fake meat? How do you explain? What do you do when they go to other kids parties to McD's? I know I tend to worry, much more. But it would be nice to know you approach.
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Usually 6 month old babies don't have enough teeth to chew meat and their digestive systems aren't used to breaking that down. Best idea is to talk to the baby's pediatrician before making any big food change decisions. Also raising a child to be vegan or vegetarian should definitely be talked over with a doctor to make sure the baby is getting all the nutrients and vitamins he/she needs to survive.
i didn't try meat till my kids were almost one. my son never liked it and my daughter is a meat eater!! my food choices are not my childrens, so they get the full range of healthy foods. they can decide what they want to include in their diets as they get older.
Some people just don't know any better. They think they do, but they don't.
Forget the meat.Their digestive track isn't ready, besides considering the hormones used in animals I don't believe it is healthy.You know our teenagers are really developing much faster than previous generations and parents aren't asking why.Same goes for some brands of milk.
That baby died because of neglect. That has nothing to do with veganism. And he wasn't breastfed either. Any baby only fed soy milk (or cow's milk) and apple juice is going to die.
Versant: Yes, your food choices ARE your children's food choices. Every parent passes their beliefs on to their children from whether their belief is that animals are/are not food to religion to morals & ethics. Why would you be any different? Why would you feed your baby something you feel isn't fit for your own consumption?
i've been thinking about this issue a lot. i'm a vegetarian. my bf is a meat eater who eats a lot lot less meat now and understands a lot of my concerns. i want to raise my kids vegetarian, but if they do eat meat i want it to be farm bred free range meat. i don't see why you can't raise a child veggie/vegan as long as you research it well and make careful choices. i think it will be harder as they get bigger and are eating out and don't really understand everything. i'll see what happens.
I've been a vegetarian my whole life and my kids will be too. As long as they're getting a healthy diet with meat alternatives, I have no reason to have to feed them meat. I know a lot of people are really ignorant about this, but that's not my problem. As long as my dr approves it and I've done the research, I couldn't care less what others say. My children will grow up a lot healthier than those who eat McDonald's all the time.
Their babies are suffering from the ignorance they have adopted.