When did the term flexitarian come into use?!
Answers: It is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard?
I think it's a term for people who eat twist ties, pipe cleaners and Slinkys.
I AGREE!
now watch the thumbs down i'll get!
I will always thumbs down a certain someone for their source though. Always the same.
I think the term flexitarian is just a waste and is pointless to attach it to vegetarian or vegan. You either are a veg, or vegan, or are not. Its pretty simple. Once you make the switch, you won't just go back to eating meat once in a while. You would choose to not be veg anymore.
This term really gets me going.....
they just made it up. When you think about it, it doesn't mean anything because it would be anyone not dedicated to a vegetarian diet which covers all meateaters that eat onion rings or potato chips and french fries. For your question, I think it just came up these past few weeks.
Aw....come on Ladies! Let's be nice!
Flexetarian refers to a person who is a vegetarian in day to day life, but eats meat on occasion so as not to insult the host of a dinner party if the host doesn't know the guest is a vegetarian, and the guest doesn't tell host of preference to spare host of extra work. And it can also refer to someone who may eat meat as part of a ritual such as a family holiday dinner.
Y'all are a bunch of food Nazis! You need to tune into real life.
There's allot of that out there....flexitarian....means when someone wants to pretend to commit to something and really doesn't commit....sort of says something about ones character, don't you think??? :)
no freaking clue. its the most ridiculous thing ever. i dont understand it, either your veg, or not
Who cares what they call themselves. At least they are making the effort to eat less meat.
This term makes me mad bc if u are a vegetarian then u dont eat meat
I'd take a pragmatist, realist, new flaky word using flexitarian over a 14 year old girl, "i dont like the taste of meat," fad diet, malnourished, over-privileged, picky eater vegetarian any day.
I am not saying all vegetarians fit that description, i am just saying within the overall meat reduction movement...
flexetarian- meateater
JenasaurusX : lol "faketarian"
Going to start using that
October 17, 1992. Wikipedia
Flexitarian Vegetarians are on the increase in modern society, and accepted by the ancient vegetarian cultures as vegetarians. More vegetarians world-wide are flexitarians rather than the strict vegetarians that you find on this forum who know little about the outside world.
This is a fairly new term that has popped up. Personally I think it comes from some people's need to be labeled and apart of some sort of group.
The term is ridiculous and doesn't make sense. Technically a "flexatarian" is the way that omnivores should be taking in meat and do not. It would be like a person that limits junk food(how everyone should), calling themselves a special name.
i know!!!
its not a vegetarian or a vegan!
they just want a title!!
Its part of out American compulsion to label people. I agree that it is silly, but it can help avoid confusion. Say... if you're dating someone who claims to be a vegan and then you go to a dinner party with him and he is scarfing pork chops. If he had just said he was a flexetarian in the first place, you would have known not to date him.... not that this happened to me or anything....