Yesterday evening, Billy told us that he didn’t want to wear a jacket that we bought for him anymore. When we asked why, in a very serious tone, he told us that they took animals and cut off their skin and made jackets out of them.
So, we had to have the “where hamburger comes from” talk. We informed him that some people hunted, sometimes animals were used for food, and that some people don’t eat animals at all.
We told him that we wanted him to make up his own mind about the subject. When we got to the part about how vegetarians didn’t eat hamburgers or hotdogs, his mind was made up. The look on his face when he heard that vegetarians only eat vegetables was priceless.
October 27th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Hey, Bill!
Of course, an important question is who is filling Billy’s head with such trivial nonsense at his age? It’s one thing to present options as you did, but it sounds as though someone told him that any form of “damage” to animals is bad. I respect people that choose to be vegetarians (it IS their choice afer all), but don’t try to tell me that animals aren’t part of the food chain.