No offense, but how do you turn your kids into such save-the-world ideologues at such a young age?

I don't see that rabidity in the gentile kids I hang around with. They are live-and-let-live types pretty much.

I mean, they are shocked that Bambi dies, and weep at the tragedy of mom being killed, but they don't organize and proselytize radical vegetarianism at the dinner table to adults.

These kids will be starting Pre-K leftie veggie demo groups planning Direct Action during naptime.

Sheesh! If you spent one tenth the time teaching them to keep kasher that you spend training them up on the vegetarian derech imagine what good Jews they would be!

Murdered cows, indeed. Just be careful around zoos lest they slip away and start haranguing the lions in the lion cage for their immoral, beastly and murderous carnivorous habits like Lenin giving a stump speech.

You hit on an issue why I don't think it is wrong to eat animals: nature MADE humans and lions, tigers, etc. to eat meat. That is a 'period and done with' issue there: we are meant to eat meat, nature made us that way, and there is NO arguing with nature, because she don't make the mistakes (italian Engrish here).

Hear, hear! I grew up in the country on non-factory farmed meat, and I hate it when people (inevitably city folks) conflate ethical eating with vegetarianism.

There is a middle ground between being a vegetarian snob -- and I don't mean people who are veggie because of health issues or religious reasons, but the snobs like the veggie the author of the article chose to marry -- and a supermarket-shopping zombie. It's simple: demand better food, and be willing to go slightly out of your way to get it. Bonus: Kids often love going to farmer's markets, and the farmers are often quite happy to educate on how the food came to market. Extra bonus: the food is a million times better, and you'll get to (re)learn what "eating in season" is.

What's wrong with supermarkets, exactly?