Ah, but have you considered that 
? Israel and ukraine are an honorary white countries while Russia and palestine are not
The latest simplicius is entirely focused on the military situation in ukraine/Russia so is worth reading if you want to go further than "Russia is winning".
Discussion includes the shifting narratives in the western press, recent ukrainian mobilization age bill, degradation of ukrainian armour/vehicles, paucity of any potential US aid package, and current strategies of the two nations.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-4324-zelensky-steps-closer
Getting our kid to eat vegetables became easier when we let them control their own use of salt and butter. That added a sense of control, allowed them to season to taste and also has allowed some fuckups so now they know that there is in fact too much of a good thing.
I just appreciated that your coworker is catholic. That means they definitely gave a catholic guilt button. A lot of antivegan attitude, dressed up as social concern like this or otherwise, is just an expression of people's own guilt about the contradiction between what they know about what they eat and their self image as a Good Person. If you shift the terrain of the discussion away from peer pressure etc and onto more solid ground (I want to raise my child with strong morals, veganism is a strong part of my morals, cruelty to animals is clearly immoral) then you're either going to reach this person or get them to shut the fuck up. This criticism of you is clearly a reflection of their own insecurity, so the more you can turn this around on them the better.
But if we're just talking about a kid's taste, what if you make casserole every night and the kid is tired of casserole? Is it child abuse to keep feeding them the casserole?
do you mean like vegan food is all the same casserole night after night? that's a bizarre analogy. you can make all kinds of vegan food.
this is a great point. my partner's family was used to veganism but mine wasn't. getting them used to staunch veganism with us adults meant a lot less bullshit when it carried over to our kid too. it would be so fucking frustrating if I had family sandbagging me like that with my kid
better also teach them to smoke and drink as children just so they are totally normal right out of the gate
thank you! we're lucky to be in a community that is pretty accepting even if veganism is rare. we don't proselytize except having people over for meals and barring meat/dairy from our table. my partner and I are both decent cooks so that helps
we've had a few funny experiences with other carnist kids. one insisted he never ate vegetables while eating a cupcake we made. after we told him it was made only with plants, he was pretty sheepish. still ate it though. one or two times other kids have tried to push our buttons but after years of posting on the internet, owning children with facts and logic is pretty straightforward. 'no, we just choose not to eat animals. we like animals better alive and happy.' kids will ruminate on that more often than adults, they're naturally more open to learn, less ready to be defensive.
I wish you all the best if you choose to have kids. well also if you don't, but you know what I mean
hey it's a major hollywood blockbuster
is this russian propaganda?
communism is when you share the dog and stalin gets the head and everyone else gets the ass
our household is all vegan. my partner went vegan as a teen. they were patient with me as I eventually drifted away from animal products and went vegan when our child was small. our child was raised vegetarian from day 1 but never really took to eggs and cheese in the first place. they're 99% vegan now, except for the odd halloween candy. we've been clear about where animal products come from without watching dominion/earthlings.
these days dairy and eggs but meat especially elicit an 'ew' reaction. there's one other kid we know that is mostly if not entirely vegan. there's a vegetarian out there or two. while lots of people including families we know eat vegan meals without pitching a fit, I don't know of any other vegan households. the vast majority of other kids are carnists and my child has described that as 'weird'. it hasn't been a big point of contention with friends or internal anxiety so far, thankfully. our kid knows it's a choice and that if they fuck up and eat animals by accident that's nothing to be ashamed of, but they also know that we'd be disappointed if they choose to stop being vegan.
all this 'omg kids are vegan' shit is a bullshit dodge, just another type of carnist brainworms and deflection from people's own discomfort with self criticism and personal moral reckoning. veganism isn't hard to explain to kids. it's a pretty clear narrative - so many kids books are about animals and nature as friends that deserve life and respect. not eating them is less confusing. the fucked up part is explaining how the vast majority of people don't give a single flying shit. I try not to be too hard on the issue when it comes to other people, partly out of some kindness to my past self, partly because I don't think it's fair to instill distrust of 98% of people in a child just because they aren't vegan.
diet-wise obviously it's fine for kids to be vegan. it's as healthy for kids as you make it. there are all kinds of vegan garbage food to eat as well as lots of healthy stuff. our kid is a picky eater but I bet that's true irrespective of carnist or vegan. salt and sugar and carbs transcend all diets. it sucks that processed vegan foods aren't subsidized the same way that dairy and meat are because it's harder to get kids into lentils than plant hot dogs and plant mcnuggets but it's not a big deal.
I will not tolerate veiled insults against hexbear users as a whole in this thread!!!