Meat-Eating Debate (Relocated Thread)

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Well, then I will refrain from sending you articles about mercury levels in fish. I'm glad everyone is along for the ride; I just hope your kid does not get peer pressure, or worse yet, get tsk tsk'd by other disapproving mothers. I'll bet there are certain areas of the country where "forcing" a vegetarian diet on your child is considered child abuse.

Oh, I hear, "give the kid a chicken nugget...it won't kill her!" from time to time.

It's funny, my mother said I always struggled with eating meat as a kid. My hamburgers had to be hockey pucks and she would always have to cut the chicken off the bone and hide it from me before I ate.