Would you let you kid eat meat?

If I have kids they will be vegan at least up until the time they are old enough to get a job and if they want meat they can pay for it and cook it themselves. I plan to bring my kids up around animals including those commonly killed for meat and I'm hoping that they will make the connection that to eat meat an animal just like their childhood friends had to die. I will ask them to watch things like earthlings and food inc. when they're old enough. I want my kids to be healthy too, so I want to teach them about nutrition and try to keep them connected to where their food comes from (I plan to have an extensive fruit and veggie garden and get my kids involved plus have them help cooking). I think I will be disappointed if a child of mine decided that they wanted to eat meat when they grow up, but it will be their decision.

My husband and kids eat meat.
I'm grateful they cut back dramatically since I went veg. My husband buys shaved ham once a week (I can't bring myself to buy it).

My 3yr old son eats meat very occasionally. He'll have a sausage and bread or something if we are at a friends bbq stuff like that. I don't bring meat into the house tho, so in my house he eats vegan.

In saying that I am teaching him what meat is. He is still too young to hold onto the concept, but given the choice to not eat a cow, he wont eat a cow. Given the choice not to eat a pig, he wont eat a pig. But he will forget pretty quick. He'll get it tho, I have no doubt. The ad on TV at the moment, the earth choice, "don't do this to the ocean's" ad, every time he see's it he gets very upset, and I explain to him that by using yucky soaps and things it can hurt the fish and creatures in the sea. He doesn't like that. He is very compassionate I plan to teach. Not force my views.

i think it is perfectly reasonable, meat eaters do not have a moral opposition to people eating vegetables and it does not conflict with their basic belief system where as eating meat i largely conflicting with a vegan person.

meat eating people eat vegan food all the time, its a large portion of their daily food intake whereas vegans do not eat animals based products.

so vegan parents are asking their children to be respectful of their views and oppionions. while not stopping their children from persuing the diets and life style of their choice.
meat eating parents not only are stopping their children from living in a way that they choose to but also are stopping them from eating and living in a way that they already have easy access to, all families should have fruit and vegetables.

i plan on raising my children as vegan and informing them on the reasons why i am and when they are younger, why they are. when they get to an age where they are more capable of free though loosening my informing and turn it in to guidence and let them discover for themselves the different reasons for veganism. so they can be vegan on their ownterms rather than because i am forcing them to. what they eat after they are able to make a conscious desicion about what differents food be will be their choice untill then i will assure they eat well and are happy with their diet rather than feeling its forced on them.

My fiance and I are both vegan (yea!) so when we have kids, there will be no animal products.  My sisters friend and his wife have kids and the wife is a vegetarian but they are raising their kids to eat meat and figure the kids can make their own choice when they are older.  Same goes for me, no dairy, no meat, no eggs and sadly probably not many birthday invitations.

Ive been thinking about when they get to school and how that will affect them socially with lunch orders and the peer pressure there, but hopefully it will be ok.  If anything it will be when they are around the primary school age that keeping them vagan will be the hardest, that age is hard for them to be compassionate, children are so egocentric and cant see things from another point of view, their brain hasnt developed that part of thinking yet.  So when their friends are eating their hotdogs and mini pizzas, it will become more difficult to keep saying no if they ask for one.   I'll have to find a vegan school for them to go to!!