“It is impossible to raise a child vegan!”

Neko Case - "I'm An Animal"

Freshly-minted Dr. EK Green (center), along with parents and PhD committee, after EK defended their dissertation, 4/11/23.

From Losing My Religions, “Day 21 Concluded”

In late November 2006, Peter [Singer] invited me to Princeton to speak on a panel with Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Happiness Hypothesis. Jonathan's thesis that evening was, “Why Good Intentions Don’t Lead to Good Actions.” My talk was titled, “Causing Good Actions Anyway.”

Anne was at a big teaching conference, so [our child and lifelong vegan] EK, who was in seventh grade at the time, came along to New Jersey, handing out copies of “A Meaningful Life” to the crowd. 

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The dinner [after the talks], however, was a mess. It was as though the cook had heard my talk about giving people tasty animal-free food and said, “Hold my beer and watch this.” The main course was a slab of barely warm tofu with a slight drizzle of sauce. It could not have made vegetarian food look worse. I’m serious.

Sitting across from me was a grad student. She started holding forth on how her mom was a dietitian and had proven that while adults could be vegan, it was impossible to raise a child vegan. She went on and on, digging herself in deeper and deeper.

When she stopped, Peter, at the head of the table, nodded to his right and calmly said, “I think we should let EK handle this one.” 

Beautiful.

As mentioned in this post seven years ago: Since Pomona's founding in 1887, Ellen is only the 13th person on the women's teams to letter in both cross country and track all four years (also earned eight varsity letters in high school). Not surprisingly, Ellen made the league's All-Academic Team as well.