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I'm not trying to give you a hard time. I have no problems with people who choose not to eat meet and I'm sure you'll be a great parent, but I'm not sure that raising a child as a vegetarian doesn't have risks associated with it no matter how knowledgeable the parents are.

Kids don't always eat everything their parents tell them to. If a kid is eating a diet with redundant sources of a given nutrient, then if he or she doesn't eat enough of one food, it's not that big of a deal. If a kid is eating a diet where some food items are the only sources for essential nutrients, then it stands to reason that there would be a greater chance that the kid would choose not to eat something important.

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I understand your point, but do you give this speech to everyone? Do you honestly think my vegetarian kid is in as much danger as the kid whose parents take him to McDonalds?

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Awful awful response. There are plenty of alternatives between a diet with too much fast food for kids and an all vegetarian diet. Vegetarian may be preferred to McDonalds but that doesn't mean that anything in the middle isn't preferred to both.

Also, whether some parents feed their kids McDonalds has no relevance on whether it's harmful to feed them an all vegetarian diet. If some parents never provide any sort of discipline for their kid that obviously doesn't justify others using beatings as their form of discipline right?

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My point was do you really think I need to be asked these questions? You think I never bothered to check if raising my kid vegetarian was healthy? Do you get the impression from my posts that I'm an irresponsible, uneducated retard? I had a conversation with our pediatrican with vegetarianism on day one. In general, vegetarians are the last people who need to be lectured on their kids eating habits, because they are among the unfortunately low percentage of parents in the U.S. that actually take the time to pay attention to what their kids are eating.