--On 5 September 2007 01:38:04 -0005 "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]> wrote:
And we'll allow that OPINION can vary from one to another of us and not demand agreement. Okay, John, Carlos? Thanks! Mike Devour silver-list owner (The vegan/vegetarian/omnivore/carnivore debate is one that seems impossible to handle without deterioration into argument and discord!)
That's fine, I do agree. It doesn't have to deteriorate, but I can imagine that it very often does, inflammatory challenges by vegetarianism and so forth. But strong opinion need not be inflammatory. Think what it may be like for vegetarian. A useful reminder could be this: meat eating is portrayed as the only (aka cultural) way to be in the media, and if this were not so meat eaters would be more careful not to assume too much. You don't here 'Today we're going top cook with meat', but you do hear 'today we're going to make a vegetarian sausage'.
It does cause some slight offence and considerable difficulty which you notice when your children are being brought up as vegetarians and exposed to this 'normal way of being'. You have to teach them at a very young age (i.e. one year old) that for moral reasons and for health reasons...and so the education begins: either that or simply authoritarian, but it wouldn't help in this matter, except to puzzle them, because they have questions naturally.
I do believe that our diet is very important for children, and they could always choose to be meat eaters later on in life, but have an advantage in being brought up vegetarian first (when the cooking is splendid).
My in-laws insited on bringing meat to our table with the infants, which I thought was most insensitive toward them.
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