yeah indigo that kind of annoyed me too, like, meat eating kids are bad or something ;)

Wow, is milk bad for you? :O Ok, no more ice cream for me

I’m vegan, and have been for over 2 years now. I was veggie for two weeks, then read all about the suffering and the cruelty inherent in the dairy and egg industries and decided enough was enough - I was not going to let my tastebuds cause suffering! It was the kind of thing that once I learnt it, I couldn’t unlearn it.

Basically, being vegan means you have the strength and compassion enough to realise that even though a tim-tam might taste better than a vegan chocolate biscuit, you are actively making a decision to NOT condemn an animal to a (short) life of suffering.

You’re doing the right thing, and you’re an inspiration to others!!

I can’t tell you how many times non-vegetarians have wondered if my children could possible be healthy and/or happy not eating meat. The main point of my post was to point out that, of course they can and they are.

The funniest thing to me is that non-vegetarians seem to think that we are insulting them simply by being vegetarians. I never proselytize. I never make anyone feel bad about their own food choices. One of my pet peeves has always been negative comments on other people’s food.

And yet, I have gotten loads of shit from non-vegetarians regarding my family’s choices. And most of the shit comes from relatives. It comes in the form of jokes about eating big pieces of meat to questions about our health to accusations that we are putting our children in danger or that they are somehow missing out because they have never had a chicken nugget or a real hot dog. I really wonder why non-vegetarians have such a problem with those of us who have chosen to forgo eating animals.

While I’m sure your children eat very healthfully and I know that not all vegetarians eat good, healthy stuff all the time, I don’t think anyone would argue that, IN GENERAL, vegetarians have more healthy diets than meat eaters.

OK, this really irritated me. I have 2 kids, both girls, who both love veggies. As a matter of fact, if you put broccoli on the table, you better get your serving first, because they will take all of it!

I just don’t like the insinuation that all vegan or vegetarians eat better than omnivores. Just because I eat meat, it doesn’t mean I am getting it from McD’s.

…and so do a lot of other things. we don’t actually need milk to survive… especially not all the hormones, etc that were put into it by humans. and one last thing that quite disturbs me about milk…if humans went around suckling cows, it would be outrageous and called “unnatural” but it is supposed to be normal to take the milk meant for baby cows and stick it in bottles to sell at the supermarket for human consumption? ick.