Parenting Topic: Vegan Children’s Boo

The new children’s book Vegan Is Love features illustrations of animals hugging and dead bodies hung up and bleeding. The book was featured on The Today Show and sparked a debate on raising kids to believe that kids who eat hamburgers are “violent and sad.”

Setup Ideas:

• Discuss the book and share any personal stories about people you knew that grew up vegetarian (or vegan).
• Go on a quest to find someone who was raised with strict eating rules. Do they still abide by them or have they rebelled? As they state at the end of the article, one kid who grew up eating vegetables now loves bacon.
• Would you buy a book that shows dead animals to teach your kids about food choices???
• Read portions of the book on the air.