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Does anyone have experience raising vegan kids? What's that like? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Id suggest you sarcastically highlight their idiotic hypocrisy (do they cook vegan meals for their children every night? Do they sincerely think you should cook three meals - vegan, vegetarian and carnist - every night? Do they think "eating meat" means they have to eat meat every day?) but you probably have to spend a lot of time with them since they're your coworkers and it sounds like they're idiots that won't listen, so I wouldn't bother.
Whatever you can do that shuts them up the fastest and makes them leave you alone, is what I think you should do.
Alternatively get pamphlets from every religious denomination and give them to their kids if you ever meet them - they want them to have choice, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

their criticisms of raising a vegan kid more put into perspective how the social aspect of that would be. I realized people would consider me abusive for having a vegan family. I think that's nonsense but it would be difficult to navigate accusations like that. Plus I started to get anxious about if my child would potentially get bullied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but it would be difficult to navigate accusations like that.

Go for broke, start telling their kids whenever they eat meat an animal is killed for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I live in an area where by the time a kid is 8 years old, they've probably already shot and eaten an animal at least once. So I don't know how well that would work.

Killing an animal with one's bare hands is considered a normal aspect of life here

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