I guess I wouldn't care...just tell him he'd be awful hungry at my house. I don't eat vegetables and I LOVE my red meat....very rare please.

start cookin lots of beans and roasting bushels of veggies

it would be fine if they were going to do their research and eat properly. If they were out of the home, I'm sure they would do the wise things. If they were still at home, I would want them to take a major part in planning their diet.

I'd make sure they got all the healthy stuff they needed so that they didn't end up malnourished. I would continue to dine on savory delicious meat products.

Good for them.

As long as the ate healthily I would respect their wishes.

I would get them books about it so they would know how to stay healthy !!

I'd have to do research on the vegetarian diet and cooking so as to ensure they were getting the proper nutrition!

I would be suprised, coz tracking down my family history, everyone are/ were big meat eaters. But id guess id be fine with it.

That would be good as I would be able to join too.

Well, if that is what he wants to be fine with me. As long as he does not expect me to cook separately for him in a different set of utensils and does not expect the rest of us to change our eating habits fine.

I would respect that. I went through this with my family when I decided to become a vegetarian at the age of 12...my mom at first was not happy about it. But now, after 13+ years she has adapted many delicious healthy vegetarian dishes that my father and her eat even now that I live in another state. My thoughts on this are encourage her. Why don't you buy her a healthy vegetarian cooking book for teens (I don't know her age, but just some advice). Suggest she cook dinner some weeks and just because she has decided to do this doesn't mean you have to change your diet. But support will probably help her make healthy choices - you don't have to cater to her, just make sure you give her lots of options too. These days it is very easy to get everything you need out of a vegetarian diet, there are so many options that are in markets and restaurants now, that weren't ten years ago. Just the other day I cooked a vegetarian salmon with lemon and capers and asparagus. It was awesome. Next time you fix a meal, you can try getting her the fake chicken when you cook your own chicken and have her prepare it...could be a good bonding experience.

Ours did, and we learned to make lots of good vegetarian meals. We're on our own, now, and still eat at least half of our meals without meat.

I would encourage her and learn what foods I can buy and prepare for her. I might also try to be a vegetarian to see if I could handle being meatless. A difficult thought.

I would tell them they are on their own. Make sure they are getting enough protein but not cater to them.

If thats what they want them fine!!! My sister was vegan for a long time,and I cooked for her all the time! Its no big deal!

i would try to convince them back, but if they really wanted to be a vegetarian, i'd have to let them... i'd be super shocked though, cause i love my meat :p

Inform them that unless they would like to pay for, cook, and prepare every single meal they desire, they will only be able to choose from what I have prepared for dinner. Since I've alwasy grown up making my own lunch and breakfast, I wouldn't care what they make themselves to eat then. If they become malnourished due to improper diet, they will be put back on an omnivorous diet, and ifnormed that until they take the time to learn what they need to stay healthy, they will eat what they are provided or not at all. I ascribe to the tough love mindset.

I would respect their choice, but would be worried about their health. :/

Well I can't make her eat whatever she does not want. I'd just make sure she gets enough proteines.

I would support my child considering i am vegetarian it would be hypocritical of me not to help them.

Give then some tofu and veggies, if I didn't love steaks, burgers, and ribs so much I'd probably go vegan.

I would try not to make fun of them but eventually I would give in and start making fun of their choice to be gay. I certainly wouldn't cook them a different meal. They can eat it or not. I would also single them out and wake them up Sunday morning and make them go to church but I wouldn't tell them why ... they would ask me if it was because they went veg on me and I would say "noooooooooooooooooooooo ... got nothing to do with that". Then I would take the minister to the side and ask them to please have a talk to my child about being gay.

I'd be happy, now I can finally use the vegetarian cookbook I bought years ago

I would be very happy since I'm a vegetarian! I think being a vegetarian is a healthier life style and I hate thinking that I or my child are eating something that had a child of its own :(

Make sure they do it properly and for the right reasons.

I wouldn't mind IF the child is willing to participate in making dinner since that would often mean multiple main dishes. I would be UNwilling to buy "veggie junk food" items like veggie hot dogs and fake bacon.

My children will be vegetarian... at least until they decide not to be! So I'd be fine with it, it'd make my life so much easier if they stuck with vegetarianism.

I'd laugh, and tell them to wrap that sausage in a piece of bacon before they ate it.

I was a vegetarian for 9 years, and will probably go back to it some day. I would support it whole-heartedly. on the other end, if I were a vegetarian, and my daughter wanted to eat meat, I'd be completely fine with that as well.

Very happy for him/her!

i don't have a kid, but i'd encourage it, more of a reason for me to become a vegetarian. i've wanted to be one since i was little but never really happened as my parents aren't

One has tried that. Didn't last long. Children are fickle, they often make life decisions like this overnight and change their mind just as easily.

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It would have to rank in the top five things to be proud of your kid for!

It is a personal choice and there are lots of ways to get a good vegetarian nutritious meal. I say to each their own.

I'd say go for it. Don't stop bringing home, steaks I'll take care of them for you.

Not a chance!!! There's a good reason to why we come equip with canines.

I would thank them for reducing the types of foods that I have to cook. But, it only works out that way if you are a vegetarian already. I'd appreciate the easier kitchen cleanup too. I wouldn't have to waste so much time insuring that all surfaces are sterile. I also like it when they make healthy choices, but I won't hold my breath in hopes that they will adopt my diet and exercise regimen.

well I haven't got kids I'm 17 but if I had a kid I wouldn't let them be a vegetarian till they moved out. No way is my child gonna dictate to me what they will and won't eat. Meat is full of essential nutrition.

I would feel very proud as it also likely means that my child has high IQ to be able to question the lack of morality of barbarically forcing innocent lives to their death before their time. Not many chldren are enlightened enough to think outside the square regarding high moral, ethical issues. Even most adults would simply exist inside the square til they die. So, yes, I must feel really proud if my child is one of those elites. Scientists at the University of Southampton in England studied the diet of more than 8,000 thirty-year olds whose IQs had been measured when they were ten. The results showed a positive correlation between IQ and the odds of being a vegetarian. The leading scientist Dr. Catherine Gale explained that people who are more intelligent as children, and who will obviously keep that intelligence when they are 30, are more likely to be vegetarians at that age than those that are less intelligent. This is consistent with other studies showing that people who are more intelligent tend to eat a healthier diet and exercise more.

If I had a child I wouldn't care because I'm one as well. If I wasn't a vegetarian I still wouldn't care. You can't force someone to eat meat just like you can't force someone to leave it out.

I would be happy and sad at the same time. Happy because they would live a long, healthy life and sad because I would think about all the things they would miss out on like file min yon and turkey etc. and all that great stuff!

My future kids will be vegetarians until they are old enough to make up their own mind. Support your child, read up on vegetarianism. Learn some good basic recipes to make as regular meals. If they can't cook then encourage them to cook and be adventurous with recipes. It isn't so hard, you can do it a few ways, either make veggie versions of what the family are eating. Or when making a veggie meal, make enough for several portions to freeze the rest for other nights in the month. There are so many veggie options available now that it doesn't have to be a difficult or expensive thing to do. It's also difficult to suffer from malnutrition as a veggie unless you are eating all junk food but that would be the same if you were a meat eater too. However, don't be all "if you want to be a veggie you have to feed yourself from now on" as that can be taken badly and cause resentment.

Relieved.