Urgh

[ailbhe]

Well, I got through today, too, and even did a big cleanup of the cumulative yuk in the dining room and one morning's potion-making in the bathroom.

Linnea wants to be vegetarian.

Comments

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Go, you.

What prompted the sudden vegetarian urge?

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

If she stays vegetarian - and at 7 years old, I imagine that decision may not be set in stone (although it may, especially if she actively dislikes meat) - will that be a problem for your family, or an opportunity?

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

I've been veggie since I was about ten. Are you going to let her?

[ailbhe]

Oh, it's not sudden! She's been drifting towards it for years - literally genuinely years - as she worked on her thoughts on death, compassion, animal welfare, nutrition etc. She's hoping that if we can all go vegetarian we can then persuade everyone else to too. (This won't work; a vegetarian diet seems to make me pretty ill).

[ailbhe]

Oh yes; I tend to be vegetarian anyway, and was deliberately so from age 14-18. Now I have to remember to eat meat or I get pretty sick, so we try to have meat several times a week. But if I'm just cooking from day to day, not planning, I can accidentally end up eating veggie for a week or two at a time.

[ailbhe]

I approve of it as an ethical choice from an environmental point of view as well as a compassion one.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Then it makes it easier for all concerned if you no longer feel obliged to cook meat for the children!

[ailbhe]

Rob eats meat and I have found that I need to eat SOME meat or I get ill, we don't know why. But yeah, I'm happy with the decision.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you and Rob can do as we do and have meat on Sundays (or whenever suits you for a special meal) and eat more-or-less vegetarian the rest of the week? Or did I see that you find you need meat a little more often than that?

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised by the progression.

I'm concerned/wondering whether she can cope with the idea that animals will die regardless...that she can't make lions vegetarian.

At the same time, I'm glad beyond words that she is that empathetic and compassionate. (Because I'm struggling with a three-year-old's lack of empathy.) I'm also pondering the etiquette of evangelism.