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This is really distressing. After reading your link, I read some more articles. I suspect that the kids highlighted in the articles are actually the "lucky" ones, and that many "disappear" altogether.

 

[thefadedone]

Vegetarian mother refused to let son, 5, see meat-eating father for a year | Mail Online

Some of the comments are quite annoying as you would expect.

That's really got to be a tough situation for any vegetarian divorced parent with a meat eating ex. I think Omni/veg couples really need to consider situations like this before they make the decision to have children.

This is really distressing. After reading your link, I read some more articles. I suspect that the kids highlighted in the articles are actually the "lucky" ones, and that many "disappear" altogether.

All those couples involved need to be in jail. Every single one of them.

 

[Calliegirl]

I remember the one lady who adopted a little boy from Russia. Then decided she couldn't handle him, and put him on a plane back to Russia with a note saying she didn't want him anymore. Alone, and without anyone waiting for him on the other end. She should have gone to jail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...adopted-Russian-boy-behavioural-problems.html

 

[Moll Flanders]

That's really got to be a tough situation for any vegetarian divorced parent with a meat eating ex. I think Omni/veg couples really need to consider situations like this before they make the decision to have children.

Yes, definitely. There was a discussion about the story on a breakfast show and the presenters were saying that it was 'wrong' for a parent to inflict their belief system on a child. Typical anti-vegetarian rubbish. Doesn't that happen with most parents, especially religious parents who send their children to religious schools? I would hope parents would try to give a child as much information on most subjects so they could think for themselves but why would a parent bring a child up to have a different belief system to their own?

 

[Blobbenstein]

yes, "Meat is murder honey; here's your cheeseburger"

 

[Blobbenstein]

that's what puzzled me in the movie Gandhi, where a person asks what he can do to repent of killing some children in the war, and Gandhi says about finding some children of the other religion and bring them up in that religion, that was different to the murderer's religion.....bit weird I though; drastic, which I suppose might help with the murderer's repentance.......anyway it's been a while since I saw the film, so not quite sure of the details.

 

[Blobbenstein]

There was a discussion about the story on a breakfast show and the presenters were saying that it was 'wrong' for a parent to inflict their belief system on a child. Typical anti-vegetarian rubbish.

Which channel was that?

 

[Moll Flanders]

Guinness Book Of World Records 2014: Smallest Dog, Largest Drumkit And More (PICTURES, VIDEO)

Which channel was that?

I think it was yesterday and it was only a short bit in The Wright Stuff on 5.

 

[thefadedone]

There was a discussion about the story on a breakfast show and the presenters were saying that it was 'wrong' for a parent to inflict their belief system on a child

I hate that argument because the same can be said for raising a child to eat meat. That's inflicting the parents' belief system that eating animals is okay and natural.

I would hope parents would try to give a child as much information on most subjects so they could think for themselves but why would a parent bring a child up to have a different belief system to their own?

It doesn't make sense to me either, but I've seen this recently in the veg community. There is another veg*n board which I lurked for a bit and saw this topic come up frequently. I was amazed by all the veg*n parents and future parents that admitted they feed their children meat. I don't understand and it's one of the reasons why I never officially joined that community.

I remember the one lady who adopted a little boy from Russia. Then decided she couldn't handle him, and put him on a plane back to Russia with a note saying she didn't want him anymore. Alone, and without anyone waiting for him on the other end. She should have gone to jail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...adopted-Russian-boy-behavioural-problems.html

I remember that story also. ******* horrible.

 

[Amy SF]

Uh-oh, the righties ain't gonna like this.

 

[thefadedone]

The original girl twerking on fire video was all over social media sites and even the majority of the major news broadcasting networks. I guess it proves that you shouldn't always trust the news.

http://www.newser.com/story/174025/...nchbox&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130910

Well done Kimmel. Well done!

 

[Envy]

Vegetarian mother refused to let son, 5, see meat-eating father for a year | Mail Online

Some of the comments are quite annoying as you would expect.

Well, I guess that's what happens when you take things a smidge too far.

 

[KLS52]

Vegetarian mother refused to let son, 5, see meat-eating father for a year | Mail Online

Some of the comments are quite annoying as you would expect.

The comment about vegetarian children being shorter cracked me up!

 

[ledboots]

The comment about vegetarian children being shorter cracked me up!

Vegetarian children sometimes grow at a slower rate in their late childhood than omni kids, but they attain equal height. Puberty is generally later in vegetarian children, sometimes years later than in their meat-eating peers.

 

[KLS52]

Oops! Didn't know that.

 

[thefadedone]

Vegetarian children sometimes grow at a slower rate in their late childhood than omni kids, but they attain equal height. Puberty is generally later in vegetarian children, sometimes years later than in their meat-eating peers.

Why is that exactly? Is it because vegetarian children aren't ingesting all the hormones and other nasty crap that Omni children do?

 

[ledboots]

Why is that exactly? Is it because vegetarian children aren't ingesting all the hormones and other nasty crap that Omni children do?

That's what they theorize, and/or possibly that the non-veg eat a lot more fat. They have been doing a study with vegetarian Seventh Day Adventists for nearly 50 years.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I don't think that applies to me. I was veg growing up, and it looked to me as though I was bigger and stronger than a lot of my peers. I was in the school rugby team for a while, until I managed to get out of it. Of course I have gone to seed a bit now.....

 

[Amy SF]

Washington Navy Yard shooting leaves at least 12 dead

As long as Americans consider guns - all guns - to be sacred, tragedies like this will continue to happen.

 

[ledboots]

Washington Navy Yard shooting leaves at least 12 dead

As long as Americans consider guns - all guns - to be sacred, tragedies like this will continue to happen.

How horrible!

I like how this is buried deep within the article : "Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, was at the base at the time the shooting began but was moved unharmed to a nearby military installation."

Chief of Naval Operations!?!