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THE OFFICIAL VEGANUARY STARTER KIT

VEGAN

KIDS

PROTECTING THEIR FUTURE

While getting the nutrition right for our kids

is vital, there are some wider issues around
feeding your children vegan foods. One is
that vegans of all ages are less likely to suffer
from bugs like campylobacter, salmonella,

listeria and E. coli that infect so many animal
products, and which can be fatal to people.
And thanks in large part to animal agriculture,
antibiotic resistance to campylobacter and

other diseases is growing. If we don’t want our
children to live in a world where even minor
infections cannot be treated, we need to end
our reliance on meat, eggs and milk.

Of course, if we want them to have an
inhabitable planet at all, then we must tackle
climate change and one of the biggest
human-generated contributors to that is

animal farming.
When we feed our children vegan food,

we teach them about the environment and
compassion, about sharing the world and KELLIE BRIGHT,
taking care of themselves and others. Some ACTOR AND VEGANUARY

people may criticise vegans for ‘inflicting’ their AMBASSADOR, SAYS:
views on their children, forgetting perhaps “My children deserve a future
that they do the exact same thing when they and so do yours. If you care about
feed their own children meat. In reality, all climate change, make a difference
parents make choices for their children when and do Veganuary.”

they are young, and as they grow it is up to
them whether they continue with that choice
or they choose a different path.

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