No meat in diet

Research has revealed the diets that UK parents are choosing to give to their children, with 8% admitting to bringing up their youngsters as vegans.

According to the study, 13% of parents have vegetarian children, with the majority of these being raised vegetarian, rather than eating a meatfree diet through personal choice.

When asked to state what type of diet their children were being raised eating, 8% said ‘vegan’ and 13% said ‘vegetarian’, whilst the remaining 79% said their child ate meat.

Of the total respondents, 22% said that their child was on a particular diet due to allergies, such as gluten-free (coeliac) and dairy or lactose-free.

Any respondents who said that their children were being raised on a vegan diet were asked if it had been their own personal choice, or their child’s.

A huge majority (97%) confessed that they had made the decision to feed their children a vegan diet, due to what they felt were the ‘health benefits’ of a diet that was free from any animal produce such as meat and dairy.

More than half of the parents who said their children were being raised vegan admitted that, whilst on that particular diet, their youngsters had expressed a desire to eat meat and animal products.

100% of the parents who were raising their children on a vegan diet said that they themselves were vegan; compared to 87% of the parents of vegetarian children being vegetarian too.