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I've had a few friends who were raised vegetarians, and later in life when they decided to start eating meat, they had a hard time with it because their bodies weren't used to digesting meat.
My SO is a vegetarian and raising our children veggie is something we talk about from time to time. Our children will not be vegetarians for the above reason (though I'm not saying they will be out and out carnivores either). Children need a balanced diet that includes protein from easily available sources--namely meat, fish, dairy products, and eggs. There are also essential micronutrients present in meat products that aren't available in other kinds of foods. Veganism eliminates these sources of protein and other nutrients from a child's diet. It's dangerous.
This is one of those things where adults can decide whether or not adopting a vegan diet and adhering to it is an acceptable risk to their system--children cannot make that decision, and a parent should not make it for them in this case, as clearly a vegan diet is not an acceptable risk for a child's system to take.
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