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A bizzare combination of pro-healthy eating & pro-animal rights put together somewhat unconvincingly.

It makes sense to me, I was a meat eater before i saw this picture and investigated.

I would no more feed my child meat than inject drugs, force them to smoke - people might say that meat tastes good, well I'm sure that smokers admit that smoking makes them feel good.

This has really made me think about my diet.

It raised my hackles a bit - I think because child abuse is an important issue, and if pressure groups start to label anything they don't like as 'child abuse' it dilutes the concept. Feeding your children meat isn't the same sort of thing as hitting them or neglecting them.
[Says the meat-feeding mother.]

Also, it just isn't true. My children aren't overweight. It's a wotsit. Fallacy.
These people who eat meat are unhealthy.
Therefore eating meat makes you unhealthy.

And did you notice the aside about dairy products? Was that a veiled suggestion that I'm veering towards the dark side if I pass them a yoghurt?

The stuff about the conditions animals are kept in - I'd be open to that. I'd respond to the thought I ought to shop more ethically, and be prepared to pay more for meat - which would probably mean buying less meat. On the other hand, if someone starts a discussion by calling me a child abuser, it's not going to encourage me to listen with an open mind.

As someone who has recently become vegan after years of vegetarianism, I can see many reasons for avoiding meat and dairy dairy products. These include health, animals rights and environmental reasons.

It seems though that those particularly who oppose animal product consumption for mainly animal rights reasons are prone to using shock tactics and taking apparently extreme positions. I imagine this is primarily to grab headlines and spark debate. I doubt that many (if any) actually believe that parents who feed their children animal products are guilty of the same crimes as those who physically, sexually or psychologically abuse their kids. I think everyone needs to be more informed about the harm that a diet of meat and dairy products can do to health, the horrors of factory farming and the damage that meat and dairy production does to the environment worldwide.

I agree with Jen Erik that these shock tactics only put people off in the end. In my view a change away from such a meat-heavy diet (such as was enjoyed by most of the population not more than a couple generations ago) would contribute alot to clearing up problems associated with heart disease, diabetes, obesity and even some cancers.

Feeding your kids meat and dairy all the time may not be doing them all the favours that the meat and dairy producers would like you to believe. Parents need to inform themselves and change their own minds and diets. And Animal Rights organisations need to stop pointing the finger and find a better way to get their serious message across.