What is wrong w/ being a flexitarian?!
Answers: Why do vegans and vegetarians hate flexitarians? Is it the name? Or is it that once a month or a couple of times a yr.(holdiday and social events) that these people may feel the need to eat a little bit of meat. I you eat meat more than once a month you are an omnivoure. I see nothing wrong w/ being a vegetarian most days of my life and then having a slice or 2 of turkey on thankgiving(free range of course). Thoughts and opinions pls. No bashing. Thanks in advance for your responses.
I was told, by my vegetarian friend, that if everyone would go meatless a few days a week, we would be saving more animals.
Eating meat or not eating meat is a choice. Other's opinions should not rule what you choose to do. Be true to what YOU believe because at the end of the day, only your opinion counts.
I hope this helps.
They don't like meaters attaching themselves to the vegetarian name. The name is just some made up designation that is meaningless.
Hey I guess that makes me a Superflexitarian. I'll go and augment the wikipedia definition of vegetarian so all of the kiddies think it's real.
You have the right to do what it is you wish with YOUR body.
It sounds like you're more concerned about fitting in with vegans than doing it for your own reasons.
It's none of anyone's business what you do with your body. It's your choice, and there's nothing wrong with eating meat PERIOD.
I do believe god designed the earth as a food chain. We're not the only animals that eat animals. I don't think it's a coendicence that we as well as other animals eat meat.
Personally, I'm for anyone who will reduce their meat consumption. But some who are really die-hards resent any meat eating.
A lot depends on why they dont eat meat. If it is a killing the animals kind of thing then they probably wouldnt see any excuse for eating meat but if they follow this eating style for religious reasons, because it is healthier, to avoid hormones etc in farm raised animals then it might be acceptable to eat a taste of meat or dairy every once in a while. You have to remember its your life. No one is monitoring your eating habits but you and no vegan friends are spying on you. Do what ever you feel comfortable with and just dont discuss it with others who may not agree with you.
Vegans and vegetarians have beliefs that don't flex for occasions. They believe 100% that animals are not food. So it's sort of like being a canabul a couple times a year.
I peasonally don't feel that way. If someone is eating vegetarian foods strictly for health reasons and not for moral conviction, they might get away with it in moderation. Remember however, that the body is accustomed to the digestion of one type of food and that a sudden change might cause problems.
First, most veg*ns gave up animal products for ethical reasons. For many, it's a moral belief - akin almost to religious people abstaining from sexual relations. A religious person wouldn't say "It's okay to get laid three or four times a year if I abstain the rest of the time." That, in a way, is how many vegetarians view meat eating - as something morally repugnant. You attach yourself to vegetarianism with your 'flexetarian' label, but you don't actually espouse any beliefs of it. You just want to label yourself as something different, and are using their beliefs to do so.
Second, what is a flexitarian? It's a nothing. It's an omnivore that tries to eat healthily. What's the point in using a term like that? What exactly does it mean? What's the threshold between flexitarian/vegetarian/regular old omnivore? It's a silly and pointless distinction to make. At worst, it can confuse omnivores who aren't aware of vegetarianism.
Just to be clear, I'm not a vegetarian. I eat seafood. I never eat other meat products. There's a word for my kind - omnivore.
Veggies just don't like the fact that people feel they need to label themselves as something. A flexetarian is just a meat eater who doens't eat meat often. Thats it. Personally, I think names like pescatarian are equally as irritating. Fish is meat...you aren't any form of vegetarian if you eat fish.
If you want to only eat meat on special occasions, fine. Yes, you will be saving some animals...but you don't need to give yourself a special name.
I think the name flexitarian is just a worthless title.
If you are truly vegan or vegetarian you don't eat meat. The reason I get frustrated, not hate, with people that consider themselves flexitarian is I don't understand why they consider themselves vegan/veg if they are okay with eating meat. The whole idea of veganism is to not consume animal products. It doesn't make since why you would break the rules once in a while to consume animal products. If you are okay with eating meat, why be vegan. Your morals would/should be against consuming animals. But, by eating them once in a while, its like justifying to yourself its okay you can't uphold a truly vegan lifestyle.
If veganism is truly important to a person, it shouldn't matter if its a special occasion or not, eating animals isn't right, and is unnecessary.
i like to think of myself as a flexitarian but i eat meat once evey two weeks. i think a flexitarian is someone that sometimes eats meat, weather or not they eat it once a month or once every couple of weeks.
I dont think most v&v hate flexitarians, its more like they feel like if you are going to go to the trouble of being almost vegetarian, that you should become a vegetarian. Others are word police about the word vegetarian and they feel that too many use it to describe themselves and misrepresent vegetarians in doing so. But hate is far too strong a word for certain. But anyway, things that bother me-
1- People who think we flexatarian questions shouldn't be on the v&v board. Like it or not, there is no reason to be overly specific on y!a. Flex questions have more to do with v&v than they do with general food.
2- People (including you) who like to use the word omnivore to describe anyone who is not vegetarian. We are all omnivores. And certainly vegs who consume dairy or eggs are acting like omnivores, but still somehow they like to tell flexatarians "you are just an omnivore," not a sentiment that is ever expressed to an ovo or lacto vegetarian. And the same ones are usually word police about the word vegetarian.
okay, im a vegetarian and i do not like "so-called flexitarians"
because they pretend to be vegetarians. In the third grade people would go around saying they were half-vegetarian but, the defintion of vegetarian is a person who doesnot eat meat. but if you eat meat than you are not a vegetarian AT ALL!
its coz vegans and veggies NEVER eat meat. you can pick and choose when to believe some thing. if you going to be a vegetarian be a vegetarian
i just see a flexitarian as a veggie/vegan wannabe. some one that wants to be veggie but are to weak to go through with it 100% of the time
I am perfectly fine with people eating meat, and I respect their decisions to eat meat, and most respect mine to not eat meat. =] After all, they're eating less meat! =]
Have a good Thanksgiving! =]
I don't hate them. Just like I don't hate god or santa claus. Can you hate something that doesn't exist?