Can a vegetarian and a meat-eater successfully raise vegetarian children without making the meat-eater appear evil?
from a reader in Portugal: I believe so. I, for instance, do not see my non-veg friends (the majority of my friends, actually) and my entire family (not-veg at all) as ‘evil’. The issue lies on the fact that it is not really ‘normal’ to have an alternative lifestyle. Regarding children, I believe they can learn from the interaction that occurs between his/her’s educators and non-veg people. One could show a small children that grandpa and grandma are nice to them (the rest of the family) and that the fact that they eat animals doesn’t make them evil – it just shows them as people that do not (yet) see that animals suffer and that they don’t need to eat them. I haven’t tested this kind of aproach (or any kind, actually).
