[AnAmericanMother]

What culture is totally without meat and fish? Even if you don't eat meat often, say once a week or so, that's enough. I'm thinking of the poorest people I ever knew, in Haiti, and they would catch fish to supplement their rice and bean diet (and most of them had chickens so they got the eggs and the occasional hen who quit laying.) Even rural Southern sharecroppers back in the 60s had fatback in their greens and usually a chicken now and then.

[HamiltonJay]

There are cultures that embrace vegitarianism, they replace the complex carbs omnivores get from meat with combinations of beans and rice. Most larger ones have Hindu histories.

What these cultures do not have, though which these parents stupidly had, was the stupid stupid extreme vegan nonsense that you don’t eat any dairy products.

None that are historically vegitarian have ever banned milk and dairy, that’s a uniquely modern wester 60s hippie leftover nonsensical creation.