I’m reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, again, and I came across a paragraph that got me thinking, again.

“Around what lessons will my son’s cravings be formed? Although my taste of meat has almost entirely gone away - I often find the sight of red meat repulsive - the smell of a summer barbecue still makes my mouth water. What will it do to my son? Will he be among the first of a generation that doesn’t crave meat because it never tasted it? Or will he crave it even more?”

I obviously will raise my kid as a vegetarian and the above thought has crossed my mind numerous times. Will he be rebellious and go against what I told him not to do? Like when our parents told us never to smoke, or will he listen to me? I asked my friend Joe, who has been a life-long vegetarian, if he ever craved meat and if his friends parents gave him hell when he went over. According to him he never craved it and the parents were always accommodating.

I’m crossing my fingers.