Flexitarian...really?

[FrustratedTeddyLamp]

Seen flexitarian a few times now and so off I went to Google which gave me this definition:

Flexitarianism or 'casual vegetarianism' is an increasingly popular, plant-based diet that claims to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your health with an eating regime that's mostly vegetarian yet still allows for the occasional meat dish

So a meat eater? An omnivore am I missing something? This seems stupid to me and just another unnecessary label

I once stayed in a place with a "vegan kitchen" although none of the permanent residents were at that point vegan.
That's the easy way to cater!

@liveforsummer Ok, we will have to agree to disagree. You believe that many or most people trying to eat less meat are doing it because they aren't keen on meat? I think that's very unlikely to be true. I'd say that saying you're cutting down on meat or try not to eat much meat, and particularly labelling yourself a flexitarian (whch is what this thread was about, and the thing that's being most criticiser) heavily implies you are doing it for a specific reason. Whereas people who aren't that keen on meat probably just... don't eat much meat. Or they only eat certain meats which they like.

I didn't say many people I said some people. I'm sore people on this thread even but I can't be bothered to go back and read it all again. Similarly though many people will be cutting done on sweet stuff to reduce sugar/palm oil etc intake. I'd say I'm in a minority category in not actually liking sweet stuff much. There's still no label, neither is one needed.

Re. people’s objections to the vegetarian who will eat leftover steak.

Even the Vegan Society considers eating meat, in certain circumstances, to be consistent with vegan ethics. For example, eating roadkill.

www.veganfriendly.org.uk/articles/can-vegans-eat-roadkill/

If someone chooses to eat meat only from animals accidentally killed, it does nothing to support the meat industry, or otherwise encourage the harming or killing of animals.

If someone will only eat meat in the limited circumstances of consuming someone else’s leftovers, that will otherwise be thrown away, then that’s ethically equivalent to my mind.

The ‘he’s not a vegetarian if he sometimes eats steak’ posts are simple-minded.

The ‘he’s not a vegetarian if he sometimes eats steak’ posts are simple-minded.

Nobody is falling for such a weak argument so they must all be thick? He's still not vegetarian.