Justin (5): "We don't hurt animals."
Jakie (3): "NO! We pet them!"
Justin (5): "Yeah. We don't take their leg off and eat it."
Jakie (3): "That's YUCKY!!"
Justin (5): "Eeww, yucky!"
Jakie (3): "Pigs like to go in the mud."
Justin (5): "Yeah, they get all dirty!"
Jakie (3): "Maybe we should put them in the bathtub."
--Shari at Pangea Vegan Products

In answer to the question, "What do you like about being vegetarian?"

“I like being a vegetarian because you can save the earth. If you don’t kill an animal it could save the earth.”
--Hailey Ashmore, age 5

“To save the world, the American states and other countries. Because we don’t kill.”
--Sara Ashmore, age 3

"Cuz it's not animals"
--Ryan Hameed, age 7

"Not eating meat, because it's not healthy for your body. We eat healthy food. Besides that, I would like to improve myself."
--Mira Hameed, age 4

"I love it because I don't like eating fish or anything that's meat, no cows, no pigs, no chickens, or anything."
--Kristopher Bengs, age 5

"Rice."
--Alette Kligman, age 5

"That I get to eat foods that I usually don’t like, like peas and corn and things in my soup. And eating dead animals is disgusting!br> --Daphne Rozum, age 5

"It's nice that I don't have to eat chicken or beef or anything."
--Summer Junejo, age 4

"I wish I was a kangaroo, so I could keep all of my toys in my pocket."
--Jacob Billings, just before his 4th birthday

At the dinner table one night, on one of the occasions [my son] decided to tease us about the family's diet, he said, "I eat meat." After I looked at him and said, "You do?" he replied, "Artichoke meat."
--Megan Howard, mom of 4-year-old Jed

I was talking to my 2-year-old son, Marek, about how we're vegetarians. I said, "We don't eat cows." He said, "We pet them!"
--Gail Ostrander

When a 13-year-old offered her cake, my [3 1/2-year-old] daughter said, "No, thank you, that is gross and unhealthy." The girl threw hers in the trash!
--G

My four-year-old, Liam, spent the day with a friend last week. When he came home he was quite excited and said, "Mommy, we ate at McDonald's!" I felt my stomach sinking as he has never had meat before, but to my surprise he said, "I took out that brown thing in the middle, and I had a pickle, ketchup, and mustard sandwich!"
--Kelly Hill

We went to the local library, and they had a plate of cookies out. Our son snacked on some smoked tofu. After the program, his good friend Luc says to his mom, "Mommy may I have more cookies?" Zak [2 1/2] looks at me and enthusiastically screams, "Mommy, MORE TOFU, please!" Luc's mom turned to me and said, "What's wrong with this picture?" We all laughed!
--Lisa

"My mommy is a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian. My daddy eats meat. He's not a vegetarian...but sometimes he eats real food like I do."
--Ellie Pschirrer, age 2

I was telling my husband about a neighbor's hurt dog, and my 6-year-old son overheard and said to me, "Well, it's a good thing you're here, Mom!" "Why?" I asked. "Because you can fix the dog. You're a vegetarian." It took me a second to realize he was thinking of a veterinarian!
--Emily Neistadt

My friend Nicky and her daughter, Zebidee are vegetarian. Zeb spends a lot of time with other friends who are meat-eaters. The children were all sitting down to dinner one night and Zeb, who is three, asked her mother if she could have what the other two were having. "It's chicken, Zeb ", said Nicky, so Zeb asked, "Can't you take the meat out of the chicken, Mom?"
--Becky in Australia

"We don't eat turkeys on Thanksgiving. No one should ever eat turkeys. They love their lives and living."
--Andrew Faulstich, age 5

"This morning we woke up to Asher acting out this joke repeatedly with his toys: 'GRRR goes the carnivore dinosaur. I'm going to eat you!!! Then the vegetarian dinosaur comes. 'GRRR,' goes the vegetarian dinosaur. 'I'm going to eat YOUR SALAD!'"
--Deborah Salazar

Despite my fervent attempts to distract her, my 2-year-old watched our cat devour a mouse. Afterwards I explained that we were vegetarians and don't eat animals like Sam does. Several days later while talking to a friend she overheard me say "vegetarian," and she explained to my friend while shaking her head "No mice!"
--Carinne Senske

My two-year-old has never eaten at McDonald's, but we pass by them every day and she has decided that the golden arches are bananas
--Carol

What do vegetarians eat?

"Potatoes, strawberries, chocolate, oatmeal-everything that's really good for them."
-Kalli Wilson, age 3

Plants. Vegetables."
-Noah, age 4

"Oh, we eat corn muffins."
-Miles Wayne, age 3

"We don't eat meat! We eat FOOD!!!"
-Molly Halberstadt, age 5