Vegan is Love

For "Sharing" at my daughter's preschool, she chose to bring the book Vegan is Love by Ruby Roth.  She calls that and That's Why We Don't Eat Animals her "chicken" books.  I was so nervous, but everyting went well.

She doesn't even know that she is an activist, but that makes her the best kind.  Her activism comes out of nothing but love.

Can I Pet the Eggs?

Oh man.  I can explain to a three year old what an egg is, where they come from, that baby birds, reptiles, dinosaurs, etc hatch from them... but how do you explain unfertilized eggs.

Lately, my daughter has been asking to PET the eggs at the grocery store.

"These eggs don't have babies in them.  They won't hatch.  They came out of chickens."

We had to have the "there are no baby chickens in these eggs" talk after we were at a friend's house (a friend who eats eggs, whose 3 year old daughter had eaten eggs for breakfast).  I heard from the other room,

"I don't eat eggs.  Baby chickens come out of eggs.  They hatch." 

I'm pretty sure I only complicated things by ordering vegan marshmallow chicks from Sweet and Sara and putting them in plastic eggs and then we ate the little chicks... A bit confusing.

That Girl Eats Chicken

Today we were at the grocery store, and there was another little girl sitting in a cart eating some hot deli food, a styrofoam container of rice and chicken.  My little girl noticed the other girl eating and asked, "What's that girl eating?"  I decided to just say it and have it done with, "Chicken."

"That girl eats chicken.  I don't eat chicken.  She eats chicken.  She eats lots of chicken, but I don't eat chicken."