just a strange one, but today we went ot the farm with mil and fil, looking at all the cute little animals(oliver learned a new word 'kicken'(chicken )anyhow whilst looking at the cows and their new calfs fil shouted leo over and said 'oh lets look where your burgers comefrom' showing him a sign about different parts of the cows used for what meat...anyhow, i know its a part of life they need to know, but i think after looking at all the cute little cow's i personally wouldnt have showed him that sign...but then got me thinking is it a good thing to show them or not, maybe after seeing that he would decide to be veggie, and its his right to know where his meat comes from...but is it too graphic for kids...discuss??? x

I wouldn't do it in that setting because it is unnecessary and cows have feelings too.
If Wil asked about where the meat came from though I would explain it to him.

I work for an animal feed company and although I love eating meat I hate it when people at work talk about the animals in terms of them as food.

The poor chickens only live for about 8 weeks.

the boys know where it comes from and know its just part of life even tho its not nice xx

leo know's where meat comes from, but its one of them topics that i dont discuss in great detail(ie showing him pics of the cows and what meat comes from where), i dont like to think about it, i like meat but i put to the back of my mind where it comes from...id love to be a vegi but have no will power but when it coemes to visiting farms and such i feel crule x

I wouldn't make appoint of doing it. If he asked then I wouldn't lie but not when he's looking at cute animals

We were eating chicken (her favourite) a while back and Lottie said 'I like chicken' then she looked at me and said 'It's not a real chicken is it Mummy?'

I must admit I looked at her and told her it wasn't.....I know she will need to learn one day, but I want to keep her innocent for a little bit longer.
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im a meat eater , i only eat meat from a cow chicken ,,, i iwll eat a bit of bacon but wont eat a pork joint ( strange i know ) oh and i dont eat fish , wouldnt dream of letting heart or liver pass my lips at all
i personally dont like to think about the animals my meat comes from i think thats why i dont eat that much meats
i know my 11 year old is a bad eater down to the fact he knows where they come from ,,,, i think Dee will be more sensitive to it though as she is a girl ? my middle child would eat anything you put in front of him regardless of where it came from !

My daughter knows where her food comes from and has done for years.

I have also explained to her that the chickens we see in the farm are the egg chickens and not the eating chickens.

She knows that some animals are bred to provide food for us to eat and have done for year but MJ has a very mature head on her shoulders so I know she can handle the truth, she knows all about the circle of life, death and other things including an edited version of the birds and the bees.
The Cows/Pigs/Chickens/Geese/Sheep etc.. eat the grass, we eat the cows etc... and when we die we become the grass which the cows etc... eat so it is all a circle (think Lion King lol)

When we went on holiday last year we stayed in a Yurt on a working Farm and that was so good for her to see how the animals live, we ate sausages from the farm down the road, eggs (which MJ helped to collect), chicken and other yummy organic goodies and she understood that these things came from the farm we stayed on and the meat came from the other farm just down the way. xxxxxxxx