Veganism: What If Your Children Want Meat??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRnVhLHpa0 http://www.TheRawfoodfamily.com Here comes a hot topic. It is dealing with the question on what one should do, when family members (like kids or partners) chose to eat in a REAL different way than you. If you are vegan, a vegetarian or even a raw vegan and your kids ask for meat, what to do? This is a difficult question, and I want to make clear right here and now: I am just sharing my personal opinion. This is how I see things. I am NOT telling you what you have to do, you are supported from me to find this out yourself. The way how we go about things in our life as The Rawfodfamily is this: Tolerance! I do not believe that I have the right to force anybody to eat the way I eat, to believe what I believe. All I can do is lead by example, and believe me: I have enough to do there myself. I trust that my kids will see me acting in alignment with my talking. This has a power. This power is bigger than ruling them and their eating habits by force. And this does not mean that we do not have any rules in our house. For example: We insist on drinking green juice everyday. But I also drink 3 liters myself. And we have three basic rules we live by: 1. no physical or verbal abuse of others 2. no swear words 3. no throwing around things But that is pretty much it. If we all would live by these 3 simple rules the world would be a peacful and beautiful place, huh? (And if the everybody would drink green juices, we all would be even healthy!! LOL) Other than that, do I also believe that my kids deserve trust. they deserve and need that trust to find out what is right and wrong to them. I trust that this will help them to make good and healthy decisions. I know that some might disagree here, and say: "But what if they want to do something that would harm them or others?" I have to ask back: "Did you ever try it this way on a consistent base?" In my experience (also as an un-schooling dad) has this NEVER -not even once- lead my kids down that road. It really has to do with ...