WaPo article on teenagers going veg*n

[LeftyMom]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001013.html

Don't Have a Cow, Mom
Your Kid Has Gone Vegetarian? That Can Be Good.

By Jennifer Nelson
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; Page HE01

When Leslie Calman's 16-year-old son, Ben, came home from school one day last year and announced he was going vegetarian, Calman and her partner, Jane Gruenebaum, did what few families do when a child decides to stop eating animals: They immediately supported his decision.

"I like a family meal ritual, and so embracing rather than fighting it seemed like a good idea on every ground," remembers Calman.

While statistics are scarce, Ben appears to be part of a growing cadre of kids who reject the meat-eating habits they grew up with. A poll conducted in 2000 by the Vegetarian Resource Group, a nonprofit group dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism, estimated that 6 percent of American youths ages 6 to 17 don't eat meat; 2 percent skip fish and poultry, too; while 0.5 percent are vegans -- they also forgo dairy and eggs. (more at link)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. pretty good article! thanks for posting

:hi:

[LeftyMom]

2. Hi cutie!

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. how you doing?

hows school going for you? Im at the middle-hill part. Things are intense, im burnt out and its my second round of midterms. I just have to pull through though!

:loveya:

[LeftyMom]

4. Things are going pretty good

My grades are fine still. I had two tests and a speech yesterday, I got a B on the speech and the two tests should be fine. Oh, and I started work a few days ago. Oh, and I have the coolest guest in the world coming out for thanksgiving. :woohoo:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. ooo a visitor for thanksgiving?

who who who? :D

Congrats on the new job. im finding it harder and harder to fit work in as school gets busier and busier. oy.

[LeftyMom]

6. Somebody who posts down here a lot.

:D

I really haven't got time, but I need the money too badly not to work at the moment.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

7. I hear you about that.

damn you money!!!!


oooo does this person also happen to be a Floridian vegan? :evilgrin:

[LeftyMom]

8. Perhaps.

I know nothing. O8)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

9. .

:woohoo:

[LeftyMom]

10. My thoughts exactly.

:woohoo: