An Almost Five Year Old's View of Vegetarianism
Shane: "Daddy, why don't you like pigs?"
Me: "Huh? I do like pigs. They're kinda cute and VERY smart. Why do you think I don't like pigs?"
Shane: "Weeeell, because you won't eat ham."
Me: "That's because I would prefer not to have a pig killed so I can eat."
Shane (slightly exasperated): "But you don't have to kill it, Daddy. It's already dead!"
Note: I am a vegetarian, Tash is mostly, the only meat we serve the kids is fish, but they can eat what they want at other people's houses. That way they can make their own choices as they grow up. Shane loves the rashers he gets from my dad when in Ireland; he also discovered a love of tea. This is not surprising - he is half-Indian, half-Irish.
Me: "Huh? I do like pigs. They're kinda cute and VERY smart. Why do you think I don't like pigs?"
Shane: "Weeeell, because you won't eat ham."
Me: "That's because I would prefer not to have a pig killed so I can eat."
Shane (slightly exasperated): "But you don't have to kill it, Daddy. It's already dead!"
Note: I am a vegetarian, Tash is mostly, the only meat we serve the kids is fish, but they can eat what they want at other people's houses. That way they can make their own choices as they grow up. Shane loves the rashers he gets from my dad when in Ireland; he also discovered a love of tea. This is not surprising - he is half-Indian, half-Irish.
posted by John Mc at 5:28 PM
2 Comments:
Love that, John. You're right - kids are the funniest people we know.
I was minding my friends' 27month old last night. We were reading his Animals with their Young book. The dog had two babies, the cow had one baby and so on. But the bear, with four cubs, had cousins.
Later I learned, that all of his aunts and uncles have either one or two children. His logic it would seem, was that if there were more than two, then they were from different parents, and therefore were cousins.
Amazing logic for his age.
Primal - welcome to the blog. You know, out of the mouths of babes and all that, theres a lot of truth to it.
I am doing my best not to let a busy life get in the way of enjoying these very intersting little humans. Annoying pains in the ass sometimes but mostly great!
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