Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!: An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict of Diets

by Carol J. Adams, Virginia Messina

Overview

This original, insightful, and compassionate book empowers parents to respond with understanding and support to the surprising challenges, the worry, and changes that occur when their young person becomes a vegetarian or vegan. Although how to rear a vegetarian child is not news, addressing the conflicts parents face is. Through five chapters, the topics are arranged alphabetically for easy access. Chapter 4 is by a leading vegetarian nutritionist. A concluding chapter 6 consists of dozens of mouth-watering recipes that are easy to prepare, along with a metric-conversion table.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826415837
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/06/2004
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books including her germinal The Sexual Politics of Meat, as well as Burger, Protest Kitchen, The Pornography of Meat, and others. She is the co-editor of several anthologies on feminist theory and animals. She has been an activist against domestic violence, racism, and homelessness, and for reproductive justice and fair housing practices. A new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to her work in Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat. www.caroljadams.com

Table of Contents

	Introduction	13
1	Family and Emotional Issues	23
2	Practical Issues	63
3	Nutritional Issues for Vegetarians	86
4	Underlying Facts: Philosophy, Peer Relationships, and Traumatic Knowledge	110
5	What's Left to Eat? Recipes for Surviving and Thriving	127
Appendix	An A-Z Guide to Vegetarian Foods	178
	Acknowledgments	182
	Metric-conversion Table	184

Editorial Reviews

"When my daughter announced (very dramatically, I might add) at the age of 12 that she was becoming a vegetarian, I had many of the emotional, practical, and conflicting thoughts that Adams so deftly addresses in Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!...The transition would have been much easier with these two thoughtful books [Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! and Living Among Meat Eaters] as our guide...As a non-vegetarian, Living Among Meat Eaters gave me a new-found respect for the tribulations that vegetarians go through...[it] doesn't preach, but it does tell vegetarians how to wean others to their cause-or even entertain them for dinner-by introducing vegetarian foods in meat-eater language." -Audubon Naturalist News, July/August 2004” —Janna Bialek

“"Adams offers practical tips for sanely discussing vegetarianism with children, asking them to help plan and prepare meals to include vegetarian choices. The book's alphabetical format makes it an excellent reference for parents...Highly recommended for public libraries." -Library Jourbanal” —Blurb from reviewer

From the Publisher

While presenting her "Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show" throughout North America, feminist thinker Adams (The Sexual Politics of Meat; Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook) heard many complaints from teens about their parents' unwillingness to support vegetarianism. As a result, she created this comprehensive guide for adults coming to grips with their children's choice to stop eating meat, with nutritional information from Messina, a registered dietician. Like similar books (e.g., Joanne Stepaniak and Vesanto Melina's Raising Vegetarian Children: A Guide to Good Health and Family Harmony), this one promotes vegetarian diets by elaborating on their nutritional merits and providing family recipes; however, it also specifically targets the emotional family conflicts that may arise when children separate themselves by becoming vegetarians. Fear, embarrassment, and rejection are common feelings experienced. The author encourages parents to support their children's decision, not view it as merely pubescent rebellion; they should respect it because it is based on healthy moral and nutritional principles. Adams offers practical tips for sanely discussing vegetarianism with children, asking them to help plan and prepare meals, and easily altering family meals to include vegetarian choices. The book's alphabetical format makes it an excellent reference for parents. One quibble: given the format, the information begins to repeat itself when read cover to cover. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Charity Peak, Regis Univ., Colorado Springs Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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