PETA's Kids' Guide to Helping Animals September 30, 2009

Posted by Tiffany Wright at September 30, 2009 11:48 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack

Got a younger brother or sister who loves animals just as much as you? If so, tell them about PETA's Kids' Guide to Helping Animals magazine. The magazine is geared toward kids 12 and under and has everything they need to start getting active for animals—from tips on cruelty-free shopping to taking better care of their companion animal to making a week's worth of vegetarian meals. The Kids' Guide to Helping Animals also includes plenty of puzzles, quizzes, and FREE stickers. Who doesn't love those?!?

All your brother or sister needs to do is fill out the form here to get their FREE copy of PETA's Kids' Guide to Helping Animals magazine.

Vegetarian Kids Are the Cutest--Just Sayin' August 24, 2009

Posted by Marta at August 24, 2009 4:43 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 3 ) | TrackBack

It seems like more and more young kids are going vegetarian these days, which is great! Kids are caring by nature, and once they make the connection that meat used to be a living, breathing animal, they want nothing to do with it (can you blame them?). As someone who also went vegetarian at 4-years-old, this article about 6-year-old vegetarian Brooke English made me smile.

Here's my favorite part of the article:

Last Thanksgiving, English cooked a big turkey and Brooke almost passed out when she saw that it had no head.

"I was like no ma'am," said Brooke. "I do not want it."

I hear her—I would have said the same thing. Isn't she the cutest?!

If you have any young vegetarians in your life, here are some suggestions of things to keep them happy:

• Show them PETAKids.com—there's lots to do!
• Pass along some easy and yummy school lunch ideas to their parents.
• Be extra nice and make them some cute and delicious food from the Vegan Lunch Box blog. Mmm, I'm hungry just looking at the suggestions.

Looking to make something easy, sweet, and breakfast-y to make for a kiddo? I recently made the "I'm Like, So Easy" Blueberry Pancakes from PETA's Vegan College Cookbook for my nieces and nephew (minus the blueberries, but shaped like a bear!). My five-year-old vegetarian niece, Hannah, had this to say about them: "They're not bad ... they're terrific!"

What do you think is the best food to feed a vegetarian kid? Aside from the pancakes, I think the real crowd-pleasers are veggie dogs in a blanket or vegan mac n cheese.

Meat Spaghetti? August 18, 2008

Posted by Marta at August 18, 2008 4:27 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 31 ) | TrackBack

You know how some parents resort to tricking their kids into eating certain foods when they're little? Try not to gag: "Meat scientists" have come up with a way to make meat into spaghetti to trick kids into eating meat. I thought seeing this picture was gross enough, but the video is definitely more disgusting.

Since many kids don't like eating meat, this product is being thought of as a "convenient yet healthy" food for families. Are you kidding me? This sounds like a product from that crazy Atkins diet craze a few years back. And wouldn't you love to know your parents tricked you into eating spaghetti made of cows and/or sheep?

We're all for "fake" products here at peta2—fakin' bacon and veggie burgers, for example. These products save animals' lives. Meat spaghetti, on the other hand, will not only cost more animals' lives—it's just downright revolting. Seriously, if you didn't check out the video yet, do so now.

Here's a radical concept: Why don't parents find other sources to give their kids protein? Hummus, bean burritos, and peanut butter sandwiches are all nutritious, delicious, and kid-friendly, so there's no need to sneak dead animals into kids' food.

Do you agree that "meat spaghetti" is disgusting?

♥ Marta