Current mood:

curious

1st post

I had originally posted this in vegetarians and this community was mentioned in the response so I thought I'd repost that same post here to see what you guys might have to say:

I'm a vegetarian for both health and ethical reasons, my fiance is a hardcore meat eater. Here's the problem: we can't agree on how we're going to raise kids once we have them. Each of us wants our kids to follow our diet. Here are his 2 main arguments:

1. He doesn't want the kids to feel bad if he eats meat in front of them and then they're told they can't have any.
2. If we raise them vegetarian (I do all the cooking so that seems logical to me) and then when they're older if they decide they want to eat meat that if they've never had it, their bodies won't be able to tolerate and process it effectively and that we've have taken their choices away. Basically if they decide to do it on their own he's fine w/ that, he's supportive of my decision, but he wants it to be up to them.

I don't know where he got this idea from and I don't know if there's anything to it. If you go through a long period of your life w/o eating meat will it alter your digestive capabilities? I don't think such a thing is possible but I need something more than my opinion to counter this w/. Anybody have any ideas on this? 

BTW I think this community is a cool idea.