When I was 7 or 8 years old, my favorite reading material included Ranger Rick magazines, comic books and some of my mom’s Hardy Boys books — pretty innocent stuff. Today, though, young children can develop a complete aversion to eating meat just from reading picture books. The pro-vegan children’s books are out there, and they pull no punches in depicting the evils of eating meat.
I’ve seen them at my local Whole Foods store. Flip through the pages, and you’ll see sketches of the most miserable animals you’ve ever seen in your life. Chickens, cows and hogs are kept in small cages in dark, foreboding places… except for the ones that live on farms and are never used for food. They’re free to play all day long.