A nice young couple having a meal in our local veggie restuarant. The guy is working hard at impressing the young lady with his intellect rather than how many 'inches' he is 'packing' or what drugs he has stashed away at home that they can both get mashed on later.
Nice that. Don't get much of it round our way
Anyways, the guy is struggling a bit and spotting my bag of vegan freezer goodies he starts asking me questions. Turns out that the young lady is a confirmed veg-head and he isn't .. He is kinda there under sufference as she thinks that the odd meal out somewhere that doesn't disgust her is entirely reasonable for him to have to put up with once in a while.
Two things come up; The issue of not forcing vegetarianism on children and the usual old cobblers of how the guy respects everything about veg*ans and veg*nism (i.e. "damn these play hard-to-get veggie-chicks but I desperately want my 'jollies' later) but could never actualy be one as "he likes his meat too much".
So, first we discuss the natural choices of babies at the point of weaning: How the first solids they will accept, in order, are; Fruit (banana?) then blandish carbs (mashed potato etc) and then vegetables.
The fact that ALL babies will reject any detectable meat in their food is accepted.
The fact that the only way to get babies to eat meat is to slowly introduce it in virtualy undetectable quantities to their vegetable foods and then slowly up the dosage is (because it is indisputably true) accepted also.
After that the conversation becomes based on acceptance of the idea that babies will choose to eat fruit, carbs and veg willingly but can only 'progess' to eating meat if parents circumvent the babies natural choices by tactics of 'deception'.
We switch back to the "I like my meat too much ..." thing and this question arises;
"How can you actualy know that to be true when you were 'tricked' at such a young age out of ever knowing if you would have liked a meat free diet better?"
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