Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict of Diets

In her many appearances across North America and Europe, Carol Adams has encountered innumerable young people who reported with sadness, "My Parents Don't Understand the Choice I Have Made to Become a Vegetarian." Now in an easy-to-use and accessible format, for both parents and kids, Adams offers an insightful and inspiring book to bridge the generational and culinary gaps between meat-eating parents and vegetarian/vegan children. Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! is a comprehensive parental guide. Practical and timely, it is sympathetic both to parental dilemmas and the child or teen's keen interests. The book is also a useful guide to resources for anyone who has recently embarked on the meatless life. A special chapter on nutrition offers an invaluable "Vegetarian Food Guide for Ages 9-18" that answers the concerns of parents about calcium, protein, iron, and other specific health issues. The final chapter, "What's Left to Eat," consists of scrumptious recipes and is not to be missed! Book jacket.

Carol J. Adams is the author of the groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, The Pornography of Meat, and Living among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook. Adams lives in the heart of beef country, outside Dallas, Texas Virginia Messina is a registered dietician