Being Vegan: Teach your children well

Eve Jeffery

This article first appeared in November 2019 as part of the Being Vegan series in Echonetdaily

By way of an apology to my children.

There are no words to express my sorrow toward all earthlings.

I wasn’t always a vegan.
I am happy to admit I was wrong.
Not many vegans have been a vegan all their life. Mind you, I have been speaking to some families who have happy healthy teenage children who have never consumed animal products – but, for the majority of us, being a vegan is something we have come to later in life.
Like ex-smokers or ex-alcoholics, ex-carnivores can be a little bit ‘militant’ when it comes to their food choices because we’ve seen the light, or maybe, we’ve seen too much of the dark…
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