Vegetarians, do you allow your children to eat meat if they ask for it, or will you cook it for your spouse?!
Answers: if you are having a dinner party, and you know that some of the guests aren't vegetarian, do you include meat to your menu, even though you don't agree with it? just wondering.
Hi!
I'm vegan and I'm married to an omnivore. I cook mostly vegan at home, and I'll cook meat for my husband once a week should he ask for it. He is contemplating the switch to veganism, so I try to keep the meals I cook for him vegan/vegetarian as often as possible (at his request).
My husband and I don't plan to start a family for several years, but we have talked about how we will raise our children. We have decided that our children will be raised vegan until they are old enough to decide for themselves, age 5 or 6. We won't have non-vegan foods in the home at that point, so they won't ever be offered.
We don't have guests often, and when we do it's for drinks and appetizers. In those instances, I only offer vegan food.
Hope that helps!
My personal beliefs are that eating meat is wrong. I did not date women that ate meat. My wife does not eat meat and our child is also vegetarian. No, anybody coming to our house knows that they will not be served meat.
Well i dont have kids but when I do im not cooking meat for them. If they want it theyre going to have to get it on their own. Hopefully my spouse is a vegan and will help to raise the child vegan!
Yes. I am a vegetarian (not a vegan). But my spouse and one of my kids eat meat and I have cooked for them. When I first started , it was difficult as I was raised a vegetarian. In your case I would try and stick to chicken as a main dish or order a dish from your local restaurant and have some cold cuts and cheese for appetizer.
i think the children should make their own decisions
just cos you are a vegetarian doesn't mean your children have to
I am a meat lover but if I throw a party and your a Vegetarian I would ensure you had something to eat comparable to the main course.
I would let my children decide. I would make sure they eat healthy foods and I would buy only organic meat (if they wanted it).
I would just have my husband (not a vegetarian) prepare the meat and I'd prepare the veggie dishes. I think my guests would prefer it this way, considering that I never cooked meat in my life and it might not come out that great. Although, I make great vegan and vegetarian meals.
I wouldn't want my spouse to refuse making me a meat-free meal, so I wouldn't refuse making my spouse a meal with meat in it. I'd make it for them, but as I have never cooked meat, I can't guarantee how tasty it would be :)
Both... I cook meat for my spouse and I let my kids eat it if they want to....
I am the only strict vegetarian at home... I just don't force anybody in my household to follow the same diet that I follow. They know the truth about eating meat.... they know what the poor little cows (and all living creatures for that matter) go thru when they get killed so people can eat... so! its up to them if they want to be compassionate when it comes to what they put on their mouths...
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gosh, I am must be the sister in law! As I married a meat eater and all his family eats meat!
In my house there is no meat! My husband can eat whatever he wants, but no meat in the house!
When people come to my house, they actually want to eat vegetarian foods and they are amazed at how great it tastes.
Also, our child will be raised as a vegetarian, but will have the choice to eat what she or he wants.
I have never successfully cooked meat, because I do not taste it nor, like to touch it!
Its really not a big deal! - if someone wants to eat meat, well don't come to my house for dinner!
My children have been veg since birth, but my older child went through a phase when he was 5 of saying that he wanted to eat meat. We were on holiday, so for 4 days we went to the cafe for dinner and I ordered him different meat and told him evertime what animal it was - he could tell with the fish - it was whole and still had the eye etc.
He did not eat any of it and he has never wanted to try since.
I would not serve meat, and I would expect a partner to be veg around me, though vastly preferable would be a veg partner.
I would as I have a granddaughter who be came anemic because of this. We went through a scary time with this.thing.Maybe she is just one of the few that needs meat. but I would never put my child, at risk .Every one to their own conscience. God Bless
iam a vegetarian,my husband eats egg and chicken.i dont mind him having it,but i dont cook it at home.
but when i have a party i dont cook non veg.as i have never cooked and to be frank i cant cook them...i dont mind my kids having meat.
it is their choice.but i wont allow it inside my house thats it...means i wont cook it.they can get it from anywhere and have it inside my house but i wont cook it...
what i dont understand is veggies wont offer any meat dishes and refuse to cook meat yet demand you cook their veggie stuff wether you like it or not...how selfish..its like i want you to do this for me but i wont do it back for you...bloody grow up...if you go to a meat eaters house...then you eat whats served just as a veggie would only serve veggie stuff you eat whats served it shudnt be special for veggies and then non-veggies get victimized.
actually veggies say i respect ppls choices so they shud respect mine which is untrue...you dont respect their choices because u do not allow them to eat meat in the house wether its them or you that bought it..thats not respect...just as you wud be shocked if no1 cooked veggie burgers, or tofu when u came over u wud be horrified so have a little ******* respect.
psh.....i dont giv a **** if they eat meat or not!
introduce them to vegetarian foods?!!
show them some peta2 videos of how horribly they treat the animals...maybe then they'll change their minds!
ONLY VEG FOOD!!! if you dont agree wit it, your most likely right! so yeh...
if they dont like not having meat there, they can leave! mwahaha
I am vegan and my finance is omni. For as long as we’ve lived together our household has been vegetarian (he has his own cow’s milk and very occasionally some dairy cheese in the fridge). Since I do the vast majority of the cooking (though he is slowly learning to make a few of the standard dishes we have for dinner) it’s never been a problem. People like coming to my house for dinner because I’m a good cook, many of my omni friends say they eat better at my house than at home.
I would never cook meat or allow it in my house. Just the thought of dead animal parts and their smells is enough to make me wanna puke, why would I want to sully my home with that?
When people say “I respect your food choices so you should respect mine” I don’t think they really get it. It’s all good and fine for you to respect my choices, no one gets hurt when I make a meal. But asking me to respect your choice to engage in what I see as systematic exploitation, torture and killing of the innocent is like asking me to support you in your choice to do anything else I see as unethical. If you were to say, enjoy mugging folks on the street, or kicking your dog for fun, I wouldn’t respect your choice to do that either. Given that flesh consumption is legal and socially accepted at large means that I do in a sense respect everyone’s right to choose, but that doesn’t mean I have to support and enable your choice if I don’t agree with it. I’m not particularly a big fan of abortion (a very complicated issue, I don’t fall strongly on either pro/against side but mostly disagree with how it’s implemented now) but if someone decides to have an abortion for what I feel is not a justified reason I’m not going to run around calling her a murderer. Same thing with meat.
As far as children (not really an issue for me since I don’t have any and don’t plan to) parents have always imposed their culture/choices/lifestyle on their children. It’s impossible to raise a child as a blank slate, and why would you want to? If I think it’s wrong and unhealthy to consume animal products why would I give them to my children? Of course people can grow up to have different beliefs and behave differently from their parents, and that’s fine, but parents have to make certain choices for their children as they grow and it’s their job to choose what they think would be best for them.
i have no children or a spouse but, i am a vegetarian. I believe eating meat is just wrong. I would not allow my children to eat meat and I would not marry/date someone who ate meat. I date vegetarians or vegans.
Yes, if your children ask for it then give it to them, and think ... at least their getting protein from it.
What happens at other peoples' houses is none of my business, but at my house, there will be no meat for any reason, cooked or otherwise. I don't see it as fit for consumption, so I'm not going to feed it to my guests. If I had children, which I don't, the same would apply while they were at home. Of all the places to eat in my area, pretty much every one other than my house will serve meat. If someone wants a meaty dinner, they should go to one of those establishments.
Not being a vegetarian, I maybe have no place answering this, but here goes:
Any reasonable person would recognize that their dietary choices are not universal and will accept other people's diets without undue prejudice.
Unfortunately this is not the case far too often with vegetarians. The perceived moral superiority of the diet gives many of them an arrogant attitude. But realisitically, they have to accept that others don't share their views.
This does not mean they have to prepare meat for guests, but that they have to accept that others in their household may still eat meat, or may still serve it to guests.
I am a vegetarian and my boyfriend eats meat. He`s
Italian so he eats all kinds of stuff. I`ll even cook it for him.
I don`t mind cooking it but I hate cleaning it.