Lets say you call yourself a vegetarian and then eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Are you still vegetarian?!
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Nope. You're no longer vegetarian if you do that.
It just makes you a hypocrite :)
Vegan.
* Total Vegetarians eat only plant food. They do not eat any animal foods, including fish, eggs, dairy products, and honey.
* Vegans not only omit all animal products from their diets, but they also eliminate them from the rest of their life. Vegans use nothing from animals, such as leather, wool, and silk.
* Lac to-Vegetarians will include dairy products into their diet of plant food.
* Lac to-Ovo-Vegetarians eat both eggs and dairy products.
* Pesco-Vegetarians include fish into their diets.
* Pol lo-Vegetarians eat poultry, such as chicken, turkey, and duck.
The person that ate the turkey was a Pol-lo Vegetarian. Even to jump back and forth on which that you are still makes you a vegetarian in a sense.
You are not a vegetarian if you choose to eat meat.
* Dr Qui: it is a very large and wrong generalisation to say that vegetarians are always trying to cheat. The vast majority of people who call themselves vegetarian (or vegan, as I am) would never knowingly eat meat.
Its a minority (who are probably being 'vegetarian' because a friend is, or because its trendy, or because someone famous is, or to annoy their parents), that say they are vegetarian, but their heart isn't in it, they find excuses to eat meat, then think they are still vegetarian. But, as I said, this is a minority, and in no way represents all vegetarians or vegans.
Sure. There is no startup date that must be followed. NO beginning or end schedule before one can be called something. It is a descriptive word not a law or restriction. And if the criteria is that you ate meat you are not vegetarian then most vegetarians should not call themselves as such either because most of them ate meat at some point. As for someones claim that you are a "hypocrite" (really?? says who and under whose authority??) it's even more hypocritical to ignore the deaths and suffering of animals that must be removed/eradicated so that vegetarians/vegans have something to eat then turn around and claim you have more compassion for animals. and call others hypocrites. The person who said that does not even know what the word hypocrite means apparently (stove kettle black too)and yet so seriously throws it around. against others. Why be so serious?
funny though that the same people who insist that you don't call yourself by something based on their own made up "rules" are the same ones who "forgive" other vegetarians who ate meat by "accident". apparently that's the only "forgivable offense" according to the anal retentive vegetarian police
Yup. Once you put the turkey in your mouth, you stop being a vegetarian. If it's one of those things that is a slip-up (you caved to pressure, you didn't realize that the stuffing was made with broth, whatever), I'll give you a mulligan. However, if you intend to eat meat, I'm not sure why you'd call yourself a vegetarian. At least qualify it with "usually" or "almost" or "mostly."
Just take the sauce on the vegetables, as a smart TC said there is no lines in the sense its everybodys choice, i see no problem with treating myself to some gravy for one day of 365 days when most families make FAR too much food that goes to waste.
But thats just my ethics i dislike wasting food & will on that one day break that rule when it comes to dead-meat related foods but not meat itself.
Does that make me a hypocrite? probably but i honestly couldn't care what some person on the internet thinks & i'm probably on some other field a more ''righteous'' person (ie donating to charity)
Its all labels & words at the end of the day & those that get stuck up on them are the sort of people who just like to shoot others down
vegetarian
When you become a vegetarian, it implies a little bit more than just not eating meat. Of course your still a vegetarian, but you're a pathetic one if you ate flesh just for a Holiday. That's no excuse, right?
If you eat any sort of meat, regardless of the situation, you are no longer a vegetarian and should be ashamed. Just because there's a holiday doesn't mean there's any excuse to consume meat.
if it was starve of eat turkey i mean i guess you could bend the rules. but i was a vegetarian and steak used to be my favorite food and i never ate it, even when everyone else was having it.
Honestly, I think it depends on your reasons for going veg. If it's because of morals, that's kind of a set back. If it's for health reasons, though, it's pretty much just like cheating on a diet.
If I was about to DIE, yeah, I'd eat meat.
Thanksgiving is a time of plenty and over-eating...no one's going to die.
vegan bodybuilder and personal trainer
Well... they would basically be "starting over".
Thanksgiving is no "excuse" to eat meat as a vegetarian.
Right, thats why I don't trust vegetarians. They're always trying to cheat which makes no sense if you want to "save the animals" or whatever
Sure. You can call yourself whatever you want. Everyone slips up now and then.
THAT TURKEY HAD A FAMILY YOU KNOW!
?To answer your question: WRONG?
Right, but there are some excuses to being a vegetarian, but if you were a vegan, then you would be fooling yourself.
I didn't eat Turkey, but in my country we don't have Thanksgiving. We have common sense
