A question for the Flexitarian!?!
Answers: So I was just wondering....my cousin eats vegetarian 2 times a week...is she a flexitarian? How much meat to you need to eat to be a flexitarian...can I only eat it once or twice? If I go over that amount, is that when I become an omnivore?
Haha good question....
I like this common sense better...I think that it's his alter ego
If you eat any meat at all, you an omnivore. Flexitarian is the silliest term I've heard - it's just someone who wants a fancy name for saying they don't eat meat every day. Eating a vegetarian meal twice a week doesn't qualify as being vegetarian or anything near it.
That said, I certainly think any non-meat meal is good!! But don't call yourself a flexitarian, because you're still a meat eater.
Good news friend! You can do whatever you want and call yourself whatever you want! Isn't that wonderful?
She can eat vegetarean 2 times a year and be a felxitarain!!
So basically you want to eat meat but somehow hold onto your vegetarian label? Forget it, if meat willingly passes your lips, even once or twice, you are omni.
Guess what? You have been sucked in by a troll who isn't even a flexitarian to the point where you have taken to infighting and rant posting? Did it feel good? Did you read it over several times and marvel at how you put that dirty troll in his place?
Troll!
I think that it's a very valid question None Sense....people are throwing around the word "flexitarian" and if flexitarian does exist, then I would like to know the answer to this.
and P.S. sarcasm can come off as lame when you're typing
A vegetarian does not eat any animal flesh. Period. Never. Not once a week or once a year.
Also, are you and your cousin still eating "hidden" meat? French fries from many places, including McDonalds, are cooked in meat product. Gelatin is in many things, like marshmallows, Jello, candy, etc and that's ground up cow hooves and tendons. Some cheese contains rennet, which is stomach lining.
Don't get me wrong- I think it's great that you are cutting back on meat. But flexitarian is a word coined only a few years ago, and doesn't mean anything.
It's definitely not better to be 'flexitarian'. Perhaps meat was healthy in our evolutionary history, but humans are much different now.
It's been shown that meat is linked to a lot of cancers and is ridden with saturated fat and cholesterol. Being vegan will cut your risk of CVD in more than half, as will it for a range of different cancers. These are just two of many examples.
Even if it did have some benefits, it's still immoral to exploit animals for our own non-essential purposes.
And it's common sense that milk and eggs are not healthy - it's baby cow and baby chicken food, not fully-grown human food. Loads of growth hormones meant for growing animals of other species, plus the nasties that are added by the farming and processing methods (i.e. blood and pus)
There's loads of easy to find information on how unhealthy animal products are for you on the internet.
You really don't need to exploit animals to eat healthily!
Flexitarians ARE omnivores. Vegetarians don't eat meat. It's pretty simple.
Yes, she is flexitarian; as long as she has lots of lovely carrots. Mmmmmm.