Vegan Children

You might as well question whether parents should bring up their children to eat meat, given that the chances of them becoming vegetarian in later life and regretting having been fed all that meat before they had a chance to object are much greater than them growing up to be a radical carnivore who really cares about having been fed vegetables and deprived of meat all those years.

Is that true abou vegan children never being able to digest animal products in future? I'd have thought the guts can adapt OK given a bit of time, but I may be wrong.

Lactose intolerance is actually the norm, not the abberation.

I find this most unlikely. Cattle are reared in Africa and Asia. In India the cow is a sacred animal and the meat isn't eaten. Now why would people bother keeping large herds of cows, even in those places where the meat isn't eaten, if it wasn't so that people could drink the milk and make foods from it such as cheese?

Between 30 and 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant. Certain ethnic and racial populations are more widely affected than others. As many as 75 percent of all African-Americans and Native Americans and 90 percent of Asian-Americans are lactose intolerant. The condition is least common among persons of northern European descent.

In retrospect, I sure wish there had been less dairy products in my house growing up. Purely by habit, I drank loads of milk and ate my share of cheese. I was a mild asthmatic and had allergy troubles throughout my youth. Since eliminating meat, drinking milk and severely cutting my dairy intake, my allergies and other minor health problems have completely vanished. I also used to get sick with each season. Can't recall the last time I had the flu or any other seasonal illness.

(I'm not on a crusade -- that's just my experience.)

Right up there with lactose intolerance in ethnic populations is diabetes prominence. Extreemly high in native american and asian populations as well.

Have you ever met the "Milk is Evil" brigade? There's a big conspiracy theory around the stuff.

What do vegetarian worms eat?

Linda McCartney

They are big on goats milk in Mongolia. Is that a different kind of lactose. Me, I'm all about the milk and put my unbreakability down to the two pints a day that I drink. I would feel sorry for anyone who was denied cheese on the whim of a parent, but I guess the problem is inherent for any person who proscribes a certain aspect of diet. I know I was pissed off as a child when I realised my parents were specifically with-holding caviare from me.

Sorry - this is a private joke. Pete thinks I am the Queen of the Middle Classes as I had avocadoes as a child whereas he doesn't know what to do with them even now he is a grown up and lives in the same house as books by Delia, Nigel, Jamie and Nigella.

The best story I ever heard on that respect was about my mum- brought up in South Africa with the most amazing selection of "exotic" fruits seeming perfectly normal to her. So my mum's best friend's husband was telling us this story about when my mum first moved to the UK, she used to complain constantly ::adopts posh Seth Efrikan voice:: "The price of pine-eppels in this country is OUT-regeous!!!"

For the record, I don't think avocados are middle class, I just think they're gross.

Nick, I blame British greengrocers and their appalling spelling / punctuation. You are lucky I didn't write avocadoe's.

Guacamole always seems to lack something when I have it, but that just might the crap Mexican restaurants in this country. That said I went to Mexico last year and it lacked something there too. Probably salt.

I still have never bought an avocado in my life. They still scare me.

Oh god, I hope SF does well this weekend, so that we can afford a trip back to the Covent Garden Mexican place... Gah, this is terrible. My bandmates were taking the piss out of me last night saying "If you really ARE a trustafarian, how come you're always so broke and never have any money?" Which is what I'd like to know, actually!

You're a CANNIBAL?!??!?! My god, and I thought I was bad...

The avocado/guac conundrum -- avocados on their own are odd little things. Guac is nice, but is too liberally used. It *must* be prepared freshly and should not be indulged in huge-ass portions per chip.

I would rather my parents pushed vegetarianism on me, rather than Catholicism.

I only eat people who are already dead of natural causes, and only when Safeway isn't stocking okra. What's bad about that? I won't eat other cannibals either; I hear that's how you catch prions.

Your vegan cat

https://www.peta.org/living/animal-companions/vegetarian-cats-dogs/

great revive