What’s more important to me than that my children follow a perfectly plant-based diet on their own as they get older is that they understand that what and how we eat has an impact on others. That how we consume anything has an impact on others. The way we eat isn’t truly a “personal choice,” as it’s so often treated; it’s a decision that has tangible consequences for others, even if those others are people and animals we may never meet. Making lifestyle choices with others’ well-being in mind as much as your own is a way of adapting to and parenting for the world the future needs—a world
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