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If you're a vegetarian/vegan and have kids, did you make/encourage your kids to follow the same diet?

Asked by OpryLeigh (25305points) October 1st, 2010

If you don’t have kids, how do you feel about parents that do feed their children a vegetarian/vegan only diet? Is it healthy for the child? Should the child have a choice or at least be offered a more varied diet until they are old enough to make the choice? Are there enough vegetarian/vegan foods to give a child all the nutrients it needs in the early stages of life?

If you do feed your child a vegetarian/vegan diet only what are your reasons and does your child appear to be happy (and healthy) with that?

I don’t know anything about how good/bad for you these diets so I am not criticising. I am only intrigued because I recently heard of a little boy who had to take his own food to a birthday party because his family were strictly vegan. The child was only 6 years old so I assumed that being vegan wasn’t his choice.

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