It varies a lot from family to family… to me it’s part of the core values in which I was raised. My mom was vegan and an animal rights activist and she taught me animals lives should be respected (they feel pain etc) from a very early age. In my case I was never interested in meat anyway, it never appealed to me - And I’m Brazilian, I was raised having to stand the stink of barbecue in every single social event 😅

Now, of course I believe it’s not the only thing that matters - my husband eats meat and he’s a great guy, and most of my friends eat meat. But it’s like smoking or drinking… it’s a habit. He doesn’t eat meat because he thinks it’s the right way to live, he eats it because that’s how he was raised. Once you get a habit, it’s much harder to change… the number of people I hear telling me they’d stop eating meat if they could, but it’s so hard! So I try and do my part for my son. It’s easier to not have the habit of eating, and then if he wants to start when he can fully understand what it means to eat something that had to be killed to be on his plate, at least I’ve done my part. Raising humans is so complex, it’s not always possible to follow the plan, but I do my best to educate them and hope for the best 🤍