Kids may change their mind about eating meat in adolescence

Children have a more ambivalent relationship with the idea of eating meat than their elders. – Photo: Maria Sbytova/Shutterstock, via ETX Daily Up

Compared to adults, children have a more ambivalent relationship with the idea of eating meat. New research suggests that this may be because young people seem to go through a process of increasingly adapting to social norms as they enter adulthood.

Highly sensitive and connected to nature, children have a special relationship with animals, which sometimes seems to dissipate as they become adults. Who hasn't heard a story of a meat-eating adult tell the story of a childhood where they categorically eschewed meat consumption?