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Vegan parenting...

41 by Mark Hansen_Archive
rachael wrote:
John George Peppers wrote:
enframed wrote: i heard that spinach is easily overcooked and becomes poisonous.

i don't know what's true anymore...


Yes. This is a fact. All vegetables become poisonous after ample cooking.



OH PLEASE. PLEASE back this up.


Spinach is delicious sauteed in butter and garlic. I think the butter eliminates the poisons that result when cooking the spinach.

I think this is about as accurate as saying all vegetables become poisonous after ample cooking.

Vegan parenting...

42 by Skronk_Archive
trilonaut wrote:raising your kid vegetarian = sure
raising your kid vegan = no

though if you raise your kid vegetarian they may rebel and start woofing down meat when they hit a certain age.


You could raise your kid vegan, but that's not really the problem here. The problem is with these overly eager parents. All you have to do is make sure your kid gets all their vitamins, and make sure they eat. Meat obviously has more calories, and in it's absence, you have to make it up by eating some more.

I'm a vegan. I'm 20 now, I became vegan at 17. I'm fine, and I feel better than when I ate meat. But I don't think I'll be raising a vegan child. Vegetarian, probably, but I won't be watching my kid like a hawk. If they want to see what meat is like, then I'll grill 'em a chop.
Marsupialized wrote:I want a piano made out of jello.
It's the only way I'll be able to achieve the sound I hear in my head.

Vegan parenting...

43 by Colonel Panic_Archive
trilonaut wrote:though if you raise your kid vegetarian they may rebel and start woofing down meat when they hit a certain age.


I think that story will make a great play!

CONFESSIONS OF A MEAT JUNKIE


Cast of Characters:

SON: A 19-year-old boy named Phoenix, raised vegan but due to a rebellious streak is experimenting with consuming a variety of animal products.

FATHER: His stern but caring vegan father, named Forrest

MOTHER: His harried and worrisome vegan mother, named Summer.



ACT I:

Scene 1: Kitchen of a typical San Francisco family home. Father sits at the table, perusing the Whole Earth Catalog. MOTHER stands at the stove, tending pots of simmering food.



SON enters from stage right and proceeds towards the back door.



MOTHER: "Where are you going, Phoenix? You know dinner's almost ready. Tonight we're having a delightful seitan-lentil soup and cauliflower-potato casserole with a side of butternut squash risotto."

SON: "I've had it around here with your bullshit rules! I'm tired of eating crappy vegetables all the time! I'm going out with Tex and get a nice, big juicy steak!"

FATHER: "Phoenix, now you get back here right this instant!"

SON: "I'm 19! I'm old enough to live my own life!"

FATHER: "Well you know this household is 100% vegan! Don't you come back here at midnight stinking like charcoal grilled pork chops and expect to be let back in!"

SON: "I'm outta here."

MOTHER: "Oh, Forrest, please do something. Stop him. He's going to go eat meat again! I knew that Tex was a bad influence!"

FATHER: "Just let him go. He'll learn, once he knows how it feels to dry-heave for 2 hours straight because of protein poisoning."

MOTHER: "Oh Forrest, he's our son! How can you let him pollute his body like this? Go out there and say something to him before it's too late!"

FATHER: "Summer, do you think he'll listen? You heard the tone he took with me. If he wants to eat meat, there's nothing you or I or the Earth Mother herself is going to do to stop him."

MOTHER: "I don't understand. We tried tio bring him up with good, upstanding vegan values. Where did we go wrong? Maybe I didn't put enough bee pollen in his soy milk when he was a baby."

FATHER: "It's okay, Summer. Don't blame yourself we did the best we could. He'll come back around."

MOTHER: "Forrest, I didn't tell you this before, but... last week I found 3 Slim Jims in his jacket pocket. Oh, Forrest! I just can't stand the thought of him..." [sudden shock] "Oh!"

FATHER: "What?"

MOTHER: "You don't think he's been eating... hot dogs, do you?"




rachael wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
rachael wrote:...Otherwise all you're doing is ravaging your digestive system as it tries to get the good outta there, to no avail.


I'll ravage your digestive system...

:lol:


Ew, did you just threaten me with ass rape?


I was only joking! Besides, it was nothing but a vague innuendo (get it?).

:lol:

No offense meant.
Last edited by Colonel Panic_Archive on Mon May 07, 2007 4:53 pm, edited 3 times in total.

Vegan parenting...

46 by Skronk_Archive
The thing about being vegan, is make sure you can fuckin' cook. The vegan market is slim to none. If all you end up with is bland broccolli, that's not dong a good job.
Marsupialized wrote:I want a piano made out of jello.
It's the only way I'll be able to achieve the sound I hear in my head.

Vegan parenting...

47 by Skronk_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:I think vegans should be thrown in jail for the rest of their lives


This coming from a guy who burned himself while cooking corn. (See signature)
Marsupialized wrote:I want a piano made out of jello.
It's the only way I'll be able to achieve the sound I hear in my head.

Vegan parenting...

49 by alex maiolo_Archive
I think you should raise kids to be healthy.

A kid that can't have cake, ice cream, cheese, or plenty of other perfectly fine vegetarian foods is gonna have a rough time. It's hard being a kid and they should get some perks.

Feed them healthy stuff at home - vegan if you wish.
Let them eat what they want during the day, but educate them as to what goes into food. Hopefully they'll make good choices. Maybe not.

The fact is, people are omnivores. Growing kids need rounded out meals for health, and the ocassional treat because that's what being a kid is all about. I'd rather my kid (if I had one) get iron and amino acids from meat than a pill. They need that stuff and the most natural way to get it is as nature intended, as long as the meat isn't some CAFO raised crap.

My agnostic parents took me to church until I was 9 because a lot of Americans go to church. My opinions about religion are based on having seen it. Food is more a part of life than religion. Let people make their own choices.

Veganism is no more of a moral choice than vegetarianism or omnivorism. That's a myth. Death is part of the cycle and assigning characteristics to animals that don't exist doesn't make them real. The most important part of buying your food is making sure the food was produced responsibly.
What's worse, buying Earthbound Farms organic lettuce that was refrigerated and trucked across the entire United States, from California to the East Coast, using tons of fuel producing emissions the whole way, or eating locally raised, humanely treated meat that you know the history of?
Tough to answer, but the fact is, things are more complex than they seem and there's probably no perfect choice, so avoid fake food, don't be a lardass, know and care where you food comes from, and in a secular or religious way, appreciate that you are the luckiest fucking living thing on earth that you even have the choice.

-A
Itchy McGoo wrote:I would like to be a "shoop-shoop" girl in whatever band Alex Maiolo is in.
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