Word on Meat
Word on the street about meat is that it is meat. What?
My three year old picks apart his hamburger and licks the ketchup off the bun. “Can I have more Ketchup?”
“No, eat your meat.”
“Where’s meat?” he asks all bewildered. “This?” he holds up a bun bit.
“THAT is meat. Eat your hamburger,” I point, “Well actually eat your cow burger, it is from a cow.”
Oops.
“We don’t eat cows!”
“Yes we do.”
“Not farm cows!”
“Yes, we do.”
“Not cows with black and white spots!”
“No, we drink their milk. Drink your milk.” I put my head in my hands and watch my son contemplate his qued-cow. “What other animals do we eat?”
“We don’t eat chickens!”
“Yes we do. Where do you think chicken nuggets come from?”
“Dinosaurs.”
It is much easier to explain being a vegetarian to a child. Corn? Corn! Bring on the corn! Have another ear! What? Corns have ears? Nahhhhhhhhhh Mom you’re silly!
- Whayamean COW?
I’ve had similar conversations with Cecilia! And you gotta love those Dino-nuggets. We’ve recently been eating Mickey Mouse nuggets. Now that would be confusing, too — Mickey Mouse nuggets are actually chicken? Are you fer reelz?
maggiebahnson said this on July 6, 2009 at 11:18 pm |
We recently found a rat living in our bbq, does that count as a Mickey Nugget?
drea said this on July 7, 2009 at 2:19 am |
Well, don’t do as I did and accidentally take your ten your old to see “Food Inc. ” because you thought it was the animated flick about the little boy who invents a machine that makes food fall from the sky thus ending world hunger. Food Inc. was a documentary about the industrialization of American agriculture which depicted slaughter and cruelty to farm animals and even ragged on the corn business . Government subsidies of corn production enabled the US to sell our corn cheaply in Mexico thereby putting Mexican farmers out of business forcing them to come work in US slaughterhouses slaughtering cows fed corn that they didn’t evolve to eat rendering them more susceptible to E.coli and consequently distributing tainted meat and death sentences to young children in the US. Now Spencer won’t eat anything. Tried to slide In and Out past him last week and he moaned, “MOM! That’s an ECO-LIE!”. When I realized that we weren’t buying tickets to a happy animated film I thought, “Hey, this will be good for us to watch.” It reminded me of why I was a vegetarian for 15 years and it royally messed up my menu planning for the offspring. Damn.
Nichol said this on July 14, 2009 at 3:50 am |
OH….OH MY. Hmmmmm, tell them sewer rat tastes like pumpkin pie and avoid the charming mf pigs. Just Kidding. OH can’t wait to be morally policed by my littles, they will have fun smacking Mom back into tree hugging line
drea said this on July 14, 2009 at 8:11 pm |