Are cows pets?

I was talking to some of my "lucky" friends about being vegeterian, and reasons to do so.

Now this post isn't about being a vegetarian, but moreso it brought up a conversation from a LONG time ago with lil V.

Lil V must have been about 9 or 10 years old. We were eating at a Mexican restaurant. My husbad got some fried fish meal, Lil V a hamburger.

Now the Mexican fried fish is different from like fish N chips, you know. It's the whole fish, like the whole thing. So my husband starts eating and little V says, DAD!!! How can you eat that fish like that??!!

My husband says, because it's good.

Lil V says, but it was alive and now you are eating it.

And I kindly remind him, that hamburger you are eating was once a cow. It was alive and now you are eating it.

Lil V says, but I'm not eating a pet.

We start cracking up... (Maybe you'll get it better if you can imagine we had a 100 gallon fish tank, with BIG fish, cat fish, turtles)

Aww, now I miss our turtles!! We had this one! It was lovely.. But we had to get rid of our huge fish tank when M was little, because we didn't have a cover for the top, and it was special made tank, and I was afraid M would try to reach in and fall in. It was deep.