Adorable Child Questions Killing of Animals, Brings Mother to Tears >>Hollywood

This video is both hilarious and incredibly touching.

When a toddler named Luiz Antonio is served octopus gnocchi, he begins to engage his mother in a series of questions about the meal.

Was it ever alive? Where is its head? And why would we kill animals just to eat them?

"I don't like that that die," he says at one point in the translation below. "I like that they stay standing up."

Watch now as his mother is eventually brought to tears by her caring son - and send along some vegetarian recipes to the household! They may needed in the future.