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And that's just after a talk about the environmental impact.

Next they should watch a documentary like Earthlings or Dominion that challenge them on an ethical level.

I made sure to teach my children how animals are slaughtered for food because I didn’t want them to get some big surprise when they were older.

They love steak and chicken still. We’ve gone fishing and eaten the fish. I think it’s an important part of avoiding having children avoid the indoctrination of the anti meat lobby to go ahead and get all that out of the way.

The meat industry receives billions of dollars per year in the US from the government, so I don't think you can make the case that we're steeped in anything other than a pro-meat agenda that's so ubiquitous that you can't even film the inside of an animal feed lot. You're just serving your children the status quo indoctrination and patting yourself on the back.

Maybe you can show them the data: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

You keep bringing up how tasty meat is, but I don't see how that interacts with the concerns here since we don't use pleasure as a blank check to permit anything we might want to do in the world. It also might be a cooking skill issue on your part. I recommend this book: https://rainbowplantlife.com/cookbook/ and her Youtube channel. I eat her tofu scramble daily.

Why do you believe that the anti-meat lobby has more sway in society than the meat lobby?

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