Health Lessons from Mom: Why My Mother Raised Me to be
Vegetarian (Not Self-Righteous)

When I first told my mom I was writing about "health lessons from Mom" in honor of Mother's Day for Blisstree, she said:

What I learned from my mom was: Everything is better in bacon grease, though a half-cup of Crisco is a workable alternative. And...a meal is not a meal without meat. Obviously, I rejected all her culinary and dietary advice.

Which is pretty much true. I didn't have my first piece of meat (or lick of bacon grease) until well after I turned 20, owing to a childhood of vegetarianism, courtesy of Mom. When I was growing up, being vegetarian wasn't trendy, or even well-accepted, but my Mom didn't seem to care. The first meat I saw pass through my mom's kitchen came a few years ago in the form of dog food, and even that seemed like a cosmic shift in her relationship with meat. Years before Oprah caught onto the trend, my Mom was training me to answer for my diet during lunch room debates, and teaching me how to gracefully decline the cold cuts during snack time at day care. But until now, I've only really known a couple of basic facts about my mom's choice to raise me and my brother n beans and leaves: ... More »

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Health Lessons from Mom: Why My Mother Raised Me to be Vegetarian (Not Self-Righteous)

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