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Animal liberation and direct action

Animal Liberation Press (ALF)
Wiki on Ethical Veganism
Wiki on the Animal Liberation Front
Wiki on Total Liberation
Different approaches to AL direct action
Earth First! manual and tactics
Support prisoners of conscience: Vegan Prisoners Support Group (UK)
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Does anyone have experience raising vegan kids? What's that like? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got told today I shouldn't raise kids because I'd purposefully raise them in a vegan household, without animal products of any sort. I was told this would be dangerous and unfair to the kids.

It was a weirdly direct thing for this person to say to me (one of my coworkers). It's stuck in my head. I was told I should let my potential children choose what sort of morals they have, even though this person is raising their kids Catholic. Their advice to me was to allow my potential kids to choose every night between a meat-based meal and a vegan meal (???). And several other coworkers agreed. Where do they come up with this? No carnist raises their kids like this.

So is anyone raising vegan kids or does anyone know about what it's like? Or was anyone here raised in a vegan household?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The dual food options idea is from some kinda' class strata I'm totally not a part of because I don't think the ruralites I'm around would even say something so stupid. The logistics don't even make sense. Are you supposed to just buy and throw out extra food/meat just in case they want to not eat vegan at some point?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Are these suburbanites who pack their kids' lunches until they're like 17?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly the idea just seems to be raising a kid as a vegan is immoral somehow. They think it's too heavy of a decision to impose upon a child and there needs to be contingencies in place just in case the kid would prefer to be "normal." That's the entire impulse of what's being proposed to me, that veganism must only be a completely rational decision made by an adult, not something to teach to children.

Which is really rich coming from people who are carnists. My father raised me to shoot and skin deer and I was presented with no choice in that.

There's also an impulse among carnists to believe veganism is an overly strict set of limitations, rather than seeing veganism as liberatory (which it is.) So they only see a child in a vegan family as punished, or restricted somehow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

better also teach them to smoke and drink as children just so they are totally normal right out of the gate