Children fed vegan/vegetarian diets are at a significant developmental disadvantage to children that are fed a traditional diet of cooked meat and vegetables. I have not felt like devoting the time and mental/spiritual energy to write about it yet on Steemit because of how downright nasty and irrational people get on this topic, but someday I will because there are so many myths surrounding nutrition in the year 2018 (not hundreds/thousands of years ago when the earth was "clean" and not decades in the future when we clean it up again.)
Given the current state of our world's crop quality that often contains HUNDREDS of times less minerals than even a century ago, it is near impossible to live to 100 having eaten only vegan for one's entire life. Many of the most adamant vegans were luckily raised eating animal products (which contain the highest amount of etheric energy and are so nutritionally dense they can be considered superfoods compared to the depleted vegetables, even organic, grown today.)
Why do I mention vegetables, not fruits? They are mostly sugar and water, containing next to no minerals. They're not too important to consume because everything you can get from them you can get from cooked vegetables. It is basically impossible to find non-hybridized fruits unless you grow your own apple tree or berry vine. Why not raw vegetables? They are not well utilized by the body at all, most of the minerals are locked in their tough fibres.
Meat is not a perfect food, but in the current state of our world's food supply I find it is necessary for best health to consume a little high-quality animal protein daily. People that speak of depriving animals of their free will by consuming them are speaking through distortions. Everything is made of spirit and pervaded by the oversoul of all-that-is. Animals that are eaten are capable of making that choice, perhaps not cognitively, but energetically.
Victimhood/perpetrator thinking is a false dualism that mars the beauty of the cycle of life. Everything that lives is eaten. In many ways it is more humane how we slaughter and consume animals than how the universe slowly eats us over years and decades by siphoning off the frequencies produced by our energetic fields to help power the planet.
Before this comment gets any longer, I do want to say that as extreme as this may sound, I think it is an open question whether forcing a child to eat a vegan or vegetarian diet is a form of child abuse. Again, I am speaking for 2018, not 2200 when pollution has been eradicated and humans have near-total mastery over energy synthesis. It's important to be in the present and live rationally instead of living one's life based on ideologies.