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The other day, we're at the table, eating lamb. "What's a vegetarian", asks my 3 year old daughter. . . apparently a friend of hers, aged 3, is one...

What should I have said? (I'll tell you what I did say after any replies)...

I was going to comment, but I need to hear your reply......................conversations with kids are brilliant.

This is gunna be good knowing you :D

Sitting in the company of vegetarians is safe because vegetarians eat vegetables.

Be extra careful if invited to sit in the company of humanitarians.

My niece calls me a vegetable-arian, which is kind of accurate.

Quote from: OllieC on October 08, 2008, 23:56:34
"What's a vegetarian"

It is a native american indian word. It means lousy hunter ;)

Quote from: Bean_Queen on October 09, 2008, 05:37:33
My niece calls me a vegetable-arian, which is kind of accurate.

are you sure? wasn't Adolf Hitler a vegetable-arian ?

 Watching 'Mock the Week' the other day, PMSL.....the subject was: 'What you don't hear said at a dinner party'

'There is a vegetarian option....you can f*** off!"

;D ;D ;D

Quote from: Deb P on October 09, 2008, 10:20:15
Watching 'Mock the Week' the other day, PMSL.....the subject was: 'What you don't hear said at a dinner party'

'There is a vegetarian option....you can f*** off!"

;D ;D ;D

;D ;D

My dh is vegetarian but my son most definately IS NOT! (He's only 4 as well!)

When asking him about whether he wanted school lunches the other day, he asked "what's on the menu?" So I replied - savoury mince in yorkshire pudding or vegetarian mince in yorkshire pudding.

"Oh - savoury mince please 'cos I'm meat, not vegetarian!!" ;D

Frampers

Taking a vegetarian friend to dine in an Italian household, I said she didn't eat anything if it had a face.  Pause ... ... for thought.  Deep thought (not too many Italians are vegetarians) ... "What, even mushrooms?" I gave up at that point.

Quote from: OllieC on October 08, 2008, 23:56:34
The other day, we're at the table, eating lamb. "What's a vegetarian", asks my 3 year old daughter. . . apparently a friend of hers, aged 3, is one...

What should I have said? (I'll tell you what I did say after any replies)...

Your answer should have been 'someone who eats neither meat nor chicken nor fish (no flesh whatsoever).

Somebody who it is advisable to stand clear of when they break wind. ;D ;D

valmarg

You're wrong there, carnivore farts are much worse. Anyone with a dog or cat knows that.

cats' farts - SBD - silent but deadly   :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

Anyone volunteering to look into these last 3 posts?

I'm sure the result would be waited on with baited  breath ::)

cj :)

I blame the animals. It's their fault that they taste delicious and are so easy to catch

QuoteAnyone volunteering to look into these last 3 posts?

CJ. Are you suggesting that we all look up the cats bottom? The mind boggles.  ???

Okay... my answer was, and I realise that not all people will agree with this viewpoint - said mainly because I want her to continue to eat meat until she's stopped growing. Her morals can be her own choice when she has the maturity & information to make them.

A vegetarian is someone who thinks that the animal you're eating shouldn't have lived. It shouldn't have spent a year hopping and running around a field, before dieing in a much nicer way than people do.

She now thinks vegetarians are people who don't like animals... which wasn't what I intended but it'll do the job for now.

I believe the origin of the term vegetarian goes back to an old native American word meaning bad hunter. or at least that is how the joke goes.

Quote from: OllieC on October 10, 2008, 13:50:49
Okay... my answer was, and I realise that not all people will agree with this viewpoint - said mainly because I want her to continue to eat meat until she's stopped growing. Her morals can be her own choice when she has the maturity & information to make them.

A vegetarian is someone who thinks that the animal you're eating shouldn't have lived. It shouldn't have spent a year hopping and running around a field, before dieing in a much nicer way than people do.

She now thinks vegetarians are people who don't like animals... which wasn't what I intended but it'll do the job for now.

To paraphrase you:

A vegetarian is someone who thinks that the superselected unnatural animal you're eating shouldn't have lived. It shouldn't have spent a year crammed in a lightless, airless shed limping around on legs not strong enough to hold its specially bred propensity to gain weight at an alarming and excessive rate, whilst being pumped full of anti-biotics before being shipped in an overcrowded lorry to wait in a queue, watching its compatritiots from the overcrowded shed being slaughtered before it is etc etc etc.
Yeah, you're right Vegetarians don't like animals ::)

Quote from: redclanger on October 10, 2008, 16:07:39

Quote from: OllieC on October 10, 2008, 13:50:49
Okay... my answer was, and I realise that not all people will agree with this viewpoint - said mainly because I want her to continue to eat meat until she's stopped growing. Her morals can be her own choice when she has the maturity & information to make them.

A vegetarian is someone who thinks that the animal you're eating shouldn't have lived. It shouldn't have spent a year hopping and running around a field, before dieing in a much nicer way than people do.

She now thinks vegetarians are people who don't like animals... which wasn't what I intended but it'll do the job for now.

To paraphrase you:

A vegetarian is someone who thinks that the superselected unnatural animal you're eating shouldn't have lived. It shouldn't have spent a year crammed in a lightless, airless shed limping around on legs not strong enough to hold its specially bred propensity to gain weight at an alarming and excessive rate, whilst being pumped full of anti-biotics before being shipped in an overcrowded lorry to wait in a queue, watching its compatritiots from the overcrowded shed being slaughtered before it is etc etc etc.
Yeah, you're right Vegetarians don't like animals ::)

Paraphrase? I think you mean misunderstand! But.... how else do you win a propaganda war with a 3 year old? Would you be comfy bringing up a kid as a veggie - which is, as you know a moral minefield anyway? And I know the farmer who grew this particular lamb - it did hop around in a field... we only eat ethical meat here...


p.s. I would like to add - this is not an attempt to wind up veggies - I respect everyone's right to eat anything produced ethically... I'm not even convinced I said the right thing, but I couldn't think of anything better at the time & wanted her to eat up!