The Vegan Thread

Vegan kids are generally healthy, of course. Unfortunately, the exceptions that prove the rule are usually the ones making the headlines, and they tend to be children of disturbed parents who impose one-sided and bizarre diets on them or make them suffer other forms of neglect.

The Vegan Society, among others, has published plenty of good advice on bringing up vegan children and can draw on decades of experience among vegan parents. I'd link to some pages but for some reason can't get the web-site today, don't know if that's something at their end or at mine.

Would you elaborate a bit on this please?

I can but you will need to be specific about what you want to know about. I can't write everything about what raising them vegan has thrown up.

How did it go all in all?

All good.

How do the kids feel about it?

All good. Occasionally pissed off when there is cake and other slime at kids parties, but that is fading.

Are they healthy?

Yes. No more or less than other kids who eat meat and animal products.

The main problem we have is with the school dinners.
They're very against the idea of him bringing a packed lunch.

That's a shame!

I understand their logic, to a point (communal experience, leveller, they'll all want to do their own thing [so what] otherwise, etc). But if the food they are giving him is not up to a decent standard, then he should be entitled to bring in his own food. It's been slowly bubbling away with us for the past year, slowly reaching boiling point.