Difference Between Similar Terms
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat. Common reasons for adopting a flexitarian diet may be health, environment (see environmental vegetarianism) or reduction of resource consumption (see economic vegetarianism), which are also arguments in favor of adopting a fully vegetarian diet. While flexitarians may view the flexitarian diet as occasional indulgences, purist vegetarians may strongly resent the term and view it as cheating or as a moral lapse. Another difference is that people might adopt a vegetarian diet purely for religious reasons, as compared to health or environmental reasons. Other than flextiarian diets that may include any type of meat, semi-vegetarianism includes:
- Pollotarians: They eat chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals, often for environmental, health or food justice reasons.
- Pescetarians: They eat fish or other seafood, but not poultry or red meat from mammals. The Macrobiotic diet is plant-based, and may or may not include the occasional addition of fish or other seafood.
- Pesce-pollotarians: They eat fish and poultry, but not red meat from mammals.
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