When was the word "vegan" invented?!
freeganism, pescetarianism, pollotarianism, flexitarianism and semi-vegetarianism are "real" words.
Since all words have come into used at some time or another. These are just as made up as "vegan" and "vegetarian.
Even vegetarian is a created word first used in ca 1847 and In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word and defined it as "a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat".
Answers: The reason why I'm asking is that people don't say that
freeganism, pescetarianism, pollotarianism, flexitarianism and semi-vegetarianism are "real" words.
Since all words have come into used at some time or another. These are just as made up as "vegan" and "vegetarian.
Even vegetarian is a created word first used in ca 1847 and In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word and defined it as "a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat".
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Correction. We say they DON'T EXIST.
You cannot be a vegetarian and eat meat.
eta: Exsft: you think that by stating a fact that you cannot, by definition, be vegetarian and eat meat is me being arrogant? Lol. First you misuse "hypocrisy" in another thread, now it's "arrogance"? And you clearly don't know the definition of vegetarian. You may want to get off Y!A and brush up on your vocab.
Drutazo---you mislead or you misunderstand. They are certainly all real words. They just simply aren't accepted in America. As this is the American Y/A, you're kinda stuck with American definitions.
When the vegan society or vegetarian society accept your definitions, then so shall the veger community. Until then, all of those you describe are simply omnivores.
As the wikipedia guy said, 1940s
Vegan was a recent term, and by looking at "veegun's" answer, arrogance seem to be a part of the definition
"a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat"
Oh, is that like a virgin that only gets f*cked on the weekends?
Or a priest that only believes in god when parishioners are around?
Does that mean that I'm not a cannibal if i only consume human flesh "occasionally"?
How about a person of Jewish faith that believes that Jesus was the son of god?
A member of the Green Party that worships George W Bush?
LMAO! The American Dialect Society is obviously composed of losers that failed English class.
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LOL, do you not remember this part of your post?
"Even vegetarian is a created word first used in ca 1847 and In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word and defined it as "a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat"."
Flexitarians are NOT "vegetarians who occasionally eats meat". Flexitarianism does not have anything to do with vegetarianism. There is no such thing as a vegetarian that eats meat, even if it's once every five years.
Once you commit, there is no going back and forth. Just because your parents fed you meat, that doesn't mean that you can't become vegetarian and never consume flesh again.
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"they define flexiarians as someone who follows the a vegetarian diet BUT eats meat time to time"
Nope, doesn't make any sense. What does the word "vegetarian" have to do with it? It should be simple to explain what a flexitarian is without using the word, "vegetarian".