People often ask me, since I am almost vegetarian, whether I will give my children meat, or whether I will raise them as quasi-vegetarians from the start.*

And although I think I am quite a bit away from having ankle-biters of my own, these days I’m beginning to wonder whether I should be raising my cats as vegetarians.

*FYI, the answer is, unless my husband has stronger feelings than me, I wouldn’t force them to be vegetarians.