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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 meat 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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I have no idea.

I merely asked if it was a risk, and you replied that there wasn't any "chance" involved if you were adequately knowledgeable it, which sounded an awful lot like "poker is not gambling" to me.

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The short answer is that a vegetarian diet is 100% healthy for anyone. I've never found a doctor who told me different, and there is a lot of literature on the subject.
And I stand by my rejection of the term "chance". Eating is not a series of random events where sometimes you end up unhealthy.