From Vegetarian Baby and Child. Don't ask why I was there, just hush up and enjoy the post.
Justin (5): "We don't hurt animals."
Jakie (3): "NO! We pet them!"
Justin (5): "Yeah. We don't take their leg off and eat it."
Jakie (3): "That's YUCKY!!"
Justin (5): "Eeww, yucky!"
Jakie (3): "Pigs like to go in the mud."
Justin (5): "Yeah, they get all dirty!"
Jakie (3): "Maybe we should put them in the bathtub."
"My mommy is a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian. My daddy eats meat. He's not a vegetarian...but sometimes he eats real food like I do."
My friend Nicky and her daughter, Zebidee are vegetarian. Zeb spends a lot of time with other friends who are meat-eaters. The children were all sitting down to dinner one night and Zeb, who is three, asked her mother if she could have what the other two were having. "It's chicken, Zeb," said Nicky, so Zeb asked, "Can't you take the meat out of the chicken, Mom?"
Despite my fervent attempts to distract her, my 2-year-old watched our cat devour a mouse. Afterwards I explained that we were vegetarians and don't eat animals like Sam does. Several days later while talking to a friend she overheard me say "vegetarian," and she explained to my friend while shaking her head
"No mice!"
"This morning we woke up to Asher acting out this joke repeatedly with his toys: 'GRRR goes the carnivore dinosaur. I'm going to eat you!!! Then the vegetarian dinosaur comes. 'GRRR,' goes the vegetarian dinosaur. 'I'm going to eat YOUR SALAD!'"
