Is the flexarian diet replacing the vegetarian and vegan cult as far as eithics and health is concerned?!

Is the flexarian diet replacing the vegetarian and vegan cult as far as eithics and health is concerned?

Take a look at the following quotes . . . http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1...

"Until last year, Natural Health, a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based magazine with a monthly circulation of 300,000, published only vegan recipes, which exclude even dairy and honey.

Now the recipes regularly include meat, said Barb Harris, the magazine's editorial director.
Even the strictest of vegetarian advocacy groups consider the flexitarian trend a good thing.

Bruce Friedrich, spokesman for Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA], said he doesn't see any harm in vegetarianism focusing more on food than the issues that spurred the movement.

"From our perspective, if people influenced by health consequently cut back on fish and meat consumption, that helps animals," he said.

"However, where the protein comes from in that diet, I don't feel it's wrong if you've got a great big plate of vegetables or your protein is from a healthy, happy chicken, or a grass-fed cow."

2 days ago
SANDSTORM: I ddn't misinterpret the article, you are simply thinking rather shallowly. If there has been a paradigm shift, is that shift to flexarian diets supplanting vegetarianism and vegan cults activities. The articles are only indicative of a trend and I was asking a question as to the logical extension of that trend. Got it?

Also, you are in a state of bizarre dillusion if you think that "subtle" actions of the vegetarians and vegan cult is the impetus for this change. No vegetarian culture evangelizes their diet and ethics like the US, UK and essentially Western Europeans. They think that is silly. Most people in our culture think, and rightly so, that such extremism is not worthy of note. So your supposed influence is quite imaginary. Y'all aren't that important. There are far more powerful and credible dynamics driving the change.

2 days ago
ME: You need to read a bit more critically to understand the question. You answer doesn't even touch the margins of answering the question.

I don't think the flexarian diet will replace those who are vegetarian for ethical reasons. Nor will it replace most of the vegan cult followers since their motivations are driven by, IMO, mental disorders.

I do think that people are becoming more aware of diet as contributors to health and hence eating less meat. I've always advocated a moderate, well-balanced diet, excercise and mediation.

At least the diet part seems to be catching on. The ethics question is always a larger question, but I think there is a shift there as well due to the exposure of wanton cruelty. Not the crazy crap of PETA, but just in the course of life awareness of cruelty to animals has gone up, in spite of the idiots picketing for "chicken rights" or equating human life with animal life.

So I suspect in the ethical area, meat processors will become more human .... some are already. Of course there will be a few that in spite of humane treatment they refuse to eat meat. And that is fine too, just don't be throwing blood on anyone, or setting animals free, or anarchistic crap like that.