That's why I don't call myself a vegetarian anymore. It comes with too many expectations. I don't want people pointing fingers if I decide to eat grass-fed beef from my neighbor a half mile up the road.
My DS and I were having this discussion about alcoholics. AA has created a huge fellowship from standing up and saying, "Hello, I'm John Doe, and I'm an alcoholic." I think that's important, because denial is such a roadblock to breaking through to recovery from disease of alcoholism, but then once you're branded, does that put you in a particular pasture?
My business for the last 20 years has been in branding, and I'm not so sure I want to be branded.
As to your question about the white person pretending to be black on certain days of the year? I would hope that I would not snap to judgement. Why is it my business? Touching each other and trying to understand trumps judgement, IMHO.
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I agree that definitions of vegetarianism are all over the map so it’s difficult to use the label “vegetarian “and know what that means. I think the simplest level is to use the phrase “I eat a form of a vegetarian diet.”
I agree that turkey and fish are meat.
If people say they don’t eat red meat I always think does that mean pork? Because the pork industry does their best to convince us that pork is the other white meat. But the pork in my freezer is pretty red in color and it bleeds red blood.
When people say I don’t eat things with a face, immediately think oh OK that’s pretty clear. But then I get to thinking about the beings in the sea. Fish clearly have a face. But oysters do not. Scallops do not. But shrimp, they certainly have heads, do they have faces?
It gets very complicated this labeling. When people start describing what they eat and what they don’t eat I quickly lose interest unless I specifically asked them for the purpose of inviting them to dinner.
Trevor Noah’s black grandmother considers him white. So, in the US, he is black, and at home, he is white.
I live in the Midwest, where I am generally a vegetarian. But “at home” I am a pescatarian.
fungi are not animals and are generally included in a vegetarian diet. As are yeasts.
muscles, oysters, etc. are animals, and are generally included in pescatarian but not vegetarian diets - so you should plan on not feeding them to vegetarians.
i tell people I am vegetarian so they don’t expect me to eat things like tuna fish sandwiches or Caesar salad. Because given a choice between doing that and going hungry, I will pick hungry. If dh pulls a fish out of our pond and grills it for me though, i’m going to eat that. Also, many many people do not know what a pescatarian is, and that is on my list of “things i’m Too tired to teach you”.
Iris Lillie’s, I once said, in front of my carnivorous teenage son, “I don’t eat things with lungs.” And he said “mom, once it gets to the table, none of it has lungs.”
I get so tired of hearing "plant-based" and "ethical" when it comes to food (everything edible is "plant-based" one way or another) that it makes me feel like grabbing a heart or liver and eating it raw, blood dripping down my chin. Eat what you like and/or what supports your health, and keep the blather to a minimum, say I. (I've been both lacto-ovo and vegan--one diet made me fat, and one made me sick.) You do you.
I just don't like the `are vegetarians allowed to'. There is no international agency deciding what I can and cannot eat. I was a 16 yo punk kid when I chose to not eat meat. When people asked if I was allowed to eat something I was probably rude about answering that I wasn't interested in rules more than just not choosing to eat things I would not kill.
Yes, i’m Allowed to eat pretty much anything but people. I think there’s a law against that.
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