# Were you raised vegan/vegetarian? What are you now?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902 "2011-03-24T22:51:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902/22 "2011-03-29T08:34:46Z")

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Q: How do you know if you’re eating with a vegan?

A: Just wait. They’ll tell you eventually.

**Claverhouse** , I believe the term you’re looking for is Carcass-Eater. That’s more technically correct, while preserving the moral superiority angle.

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**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902/23 "2011-03-29T14:38:46Z")

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> [@FloatyGimpy](#):
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> Raised in a meat and potato family, started refusing to eat meat at 2ish, was totally vegetarian by the time I was ten, still am at age forty.

At 2??? How did that work? Did you just not like the taste of meat? I can’t imagine you understanding enough of the world to refuse the meat for moral or health reasons. And your parents didn’t discipline you to eat what was on your plate? Very interesting.

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**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902/24 "2011-03-29T15:06:59Z")

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My next door neighbor has 2 kids in an all-vegetarian house. The daughter (16) is very pro-vegetarian, although not at all preachy. The boy (14) sneaks over to our house regularly and asks for ham.

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-raised-vegan-vegetarian-what-are-you-now/575902/25 "2011-03-29T23:36:42Z")

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> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#):
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> At 2??? How did that work? Did you just not like the taste of meat? I can’t imagine you understanding enough of the world to refuse the meat for moral or health reasons. And your parents didn’t discipline you to eat what was on your plate? Very interesting.

When I was a toddler, I would eat pieces of cut up wieners and sausages and then (according to my mom) I just slowly stopped liking meat. Once I was in kindergarten I realized what it meant to say “we’re having chicken for dinner” that it was an actual chicken and that started me on my way to eating no meat.

I’ve never even tasted a lot of meat things like steak or a porkchop.

We were mostly forced to eat what was on our plate but enough times of me gagging and vomiting on the table during meals and my dad eventually gave up. 🙂

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