Why Do Young Children Become Vegetarian
Summary By: Faunalytics | Published: January 25, 2008
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This article summarizes research on the moral development of children with respect to vegetarianism.
Non-vegetarian children judged those who made a decision to refrain from eating meat for moral reasons more harshly than those who made personal decisions.
All of the vegetarian children disclosed moral reasons to not eat meat versus the non-vegetarian children, who didn’t acknowledge morals at all.
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Citations:
Karen Hussar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006
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