When Joanne Stepaniak was a preteen and announced to her parents that she wanted to become a vegetarian, her mother immediately took her to the doctor.
"I think she was disappointed that he didn't tell her that I would die," Stepaniak joked. "He was a fairly progressive doctor and said that would be fine. That isn't what she wanted to hear."
Although Stepaniak got her doctor's approval, her mother's never came. "She told me that she wasn't going to cook anything special for me. She said, 'If I cook green beans and meat, then you will just eat green beans.' "
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