Do Flexitarian Vegetarians and Flextarian Vegans . . .?!
Do Flexitarian Vegetarians and Flextarian Vegans . . .?
...have more of an influence over meat production than all the rants, protests, and propaganda of the old time, fanatical vegans and vegetarians like we find on this forum?
Consider the following quote from PETA Headquarters.
Bruce Friedrich, spokesman for Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said he doesn't see any harm in vegetarianism focusing more on food than the issues that spurred the movement.
"If two people cut their meat in half, it helps as much as one person going completely vegetarian."
So it sounds like just eating healthy helps everybody and we don't have to become ranting fanatics do we? We just about our business, enjoy moderation in our lives and in our diets, and generally enjoy life, don't we?
That's what Flexitarian Vegetarianism and Flexitarian Veganism is all about it seems to me. Any other suggestions? No old time fanatics, PLEASE! Flexitarian comments only, Please!
Answers: I think being or ascribing to a Flexitarian diet is a growing trend. This is a segment that will easily eclipse the rigid vegans and vegetarians in the coming years.
I can see why PETA made this quote. It is a tactical move and a strategic move. Strategically it is a response to the revulsion at the bad press their terrorist tactics have produced as well as the backlash to such violence.
Tactically, it is "going with the flow". PETA is not stupid. They are master manipulators that have learned their lesson on being outside the mainstream. So they are embracing a growing trend knowing that their base of hard-as* vegans and vegetarians are without political clout, will not grow in numbers as quickly as flexitarians and will more likely diminish, and flexitarians who usually have political clout, and are not intellectual morons making such insane statements "no such thing as flexitarians" or "check the dictionary there is no word flexitarian".
The success of PETA's agenda and their credibility is indeed dependent on how successful they are in drawing in flexitarians to their cause.
Moderation is the watchword in everything and will be for some time to come. Rigidity is OUT and without credibility. I guess that if your intrest in vegetarianism is geared toward that focus... then yes. However, there are different opinions and as far as I am concerned... a reduced meat diet (misnamed flexitarian vegetarian- to which there is no such thing... anyone who eats animals and says they are a vegetarian... is a liar.) is nothing but a diet... you still eat animals. Don't get me wrong... It is a good diet... but an omnivore diet none-the-less. Also consider this, if meat eaters buy free range chickens then there will be free range farms. Nobody is going to make a farm free range to make a vegan happy. well i think it entirely depends on why you are a vegetarian, if i is purley for health reasons then it is understandable i supose, but if it was for moral reasons then i doubt this is an argument that many would consider valid. as for veganism, you may be vegan as you are lactose intollerant, therefore you dont really have much choise other than not consuming dairy. What are you ranting about?
Has the blood, pus, and sh*t you're eating finally gone to your brain??