Veggie Baby

Now, I like vegetables as much as the next guy. Yeah, I'm even a poser vegetarian (I eat fish). But I don't think of this as a lifelong choice for myself and I think eating meat is just fine and healthy. When people ask me how long I will be a vegetarian, I always respond that I know it won't be forever because I don't think it's healthy to be pregnant and vegetarian. Now, you can be perfectly healthy I suppose, but why disadvantage myself? I mean, I want the best possible womb environment for my (future and hypothetical) child.

In an extension of the same concept, I saw on www.bbc.co.uk that a woman was trying to figure out how to raise her baby vegetarian. She was asking around for input. Some people were saying that it isn't fair to raise your kid with some weird morals. While I don't necessarily agree with that (as my kid is going to be raised Christian and I don't think this debilitates the child from free thought or independent choice later in life), I do think it seems a bit extremist to make your kid vegetarian. Growing up is hard to do already, why make your kid eat forty portions of beans a day to make up for the lack protein? Maybe I am just not hardcore enough to force vegetarianism on my future children. Still, reading about how little Johnny takes tofu fingers to school everyday... yeah, that kid for sure gets beat up at recess. Plus, it just sounds like those full on vegetarians who think no one should eat meat finally got someone small and helpless enough to force into it.

But hey, maybe I'm just a cynic. :) Nah... that can't possibly be it.