{"id":8827,"date":"2010-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/04\/the-young-vegetarian-vanguard\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:00:00","slug":"the-young-vegetarian-vanguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/04\/the-young-vegetarian-vanguard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Vegetarian Vanguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/02\/22\/militant-7-year-old-vegetarians\/\">www2.macleans.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, February 22, 2010: Two years ago in Vancouver, Carolye Kuchta&#8217;s six-year-old daughter Celia declared that she would no longer eat meat; her son had once made the same adamant pronouncement. Kuchta, a meat-eater, would never force her kids to eat meat but admits she had misgivings about some imagined potential health risks of a meatless diet, and that switching to accommodate her kids&#8217; food preferences was &#8220;pretty inconvenient at first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, as parents, we think it&#8217;s just a fad&#8211;like when Maxwell wanted to sleep on the floor in a tent forever, and that lasted a week.&#8221; Maxwell&#8217;s vegetarianism lasted six months. Celia was a different story. &#8220;She announced at the table one day that she was vegetarian, and that was it, there&#8217;s been no going back.&#8221; Celia turns nine in March. &#8220;She feels it&#8217;s her mission in life to help the planet and protect nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To help make meal preparation easier, Kuchta has educated her daughter on the difference between a protein and a carbohydrate. &#8220;I can say to her, &#8216;Maxwell and I are going to eat this. I would like you to look in the fridge or the cupboard and find a protein for yourself.&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www2.macleans.ca VANCOUVER, February 22, 2010: Two years ago in Vancouver, Carolye Kuchta&#8217;s six-year-old daughter Celia declared that she would,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}