Veganism and Children: A Response to Marcus William Hunt

Alvaro, Carlo

doi:10.1007/s10806-019-09797-w

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“…Bringing up children on vegan diets is, at least for now, more demanding for both parents and children: more foods must now be avoided, more alternatives found, the potential social costs both within and outside the family are greater. Most significantly, as previously noted, there is a body of literature that argues that feeding children a vegan diet specifically does pose a risk to their health and development (Hunt 2019a, though see also Alvaro 2019). It was previously noted that if one believed that a vegetarian diet was risky for children's health, the appropriate response would be to feed children only as much meat as was necessary to ensure their well-being.…”

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Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?

Butt

2021

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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This article is concerned with choices that parents or guardians make about the food they give to their children. Those with primary responsibility for the care of young children determine the set of foods that their children eat and have a significant impact on children’s subsequent dietary choices, both in later childhood and in adulthood. I argue that parents have a morally significant reason not to feed meat to their children, which stems from their fiduciary responsibility for the child’s moral development. This should, at a minimum, be factored into parental decisions about their children’s diet. In the absence of compelling countervailing reasons, it will mean that parents should not, in an all-things-considered sense, feed meat to their children. This claim does not rely upon the obviously contentious claim that it is morally wrong to eat meat. Instead, the fact that children, when adults, may reasonably themselves come to believe that consuming meat is wrong gives parents morally compelling reasons to avoid acting in ways which may have the predictable consequence of corrupting the moral character of those for whom they are responsible.

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Section: Vegetarianism and Veganismmentioning

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Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?

Butt

2021

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Should vegans compromise?

Milburn

2020

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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In two recent articles, Marcus William Hunt has posed questions about raising children as vegans. In 'Parental Compromise', he argues that pro-vegan-children parents should compromise with anti-vegan-children co-parents, and, in 'Veganism and Children', he challenges arguments in favour of vegan parenting. I argue that his pro-compromise position overlooks the idea that respect for animal rights is a duty of justice, and thus not something to be compromised on lightly. To demonstrate the plausibility of this position, I challenge his arguments that Tom Regan's case for animal rights does not endorse vegan parenting.Nonetheless, I argue that there may be space for pro-vegan-children parents to compromise with anti-vegan-children parents over 'unusual eating'. This seeks out unusual sources of animal protein that do not involve violations of animals' rights.

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Zero-compromise veganism

Milburn

2021

Ethics and Education

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Veganism and Children: A Response to Marcus William Hunt

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?

Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?

Should vegans compromise?

Zero-compromise veganism

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