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Everyone keeps making religious connections, but it’s worth pointing out linguistically most countries in Europe (and the world) refer to red meat, poultry, and
by barrell 10mo ago
Everyone keeps making religious connections, but it’s worth pointing out linguistically most countries in Europe (and the world) refer to red meat, poultry, and seafood as entirely separate. Meat often just refers to red meat. English is in the minority to bucket them all under “meat”
- Doxin 10mo agoNot to mention that loads of people detour through pescetarianism on their way to vegetarianism. But even if you stop at pescetarianism that's still a wild improvement on plenty of metrics over eating other meats. There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.
- latexr 10mo ago> There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense. Hard agree. It’s counterproductive to have that view, even, and it’s why many people give up on vegetarianism (“I wasn’t able to go all in cold turkey, so it isn’t for me and I’ll revert completely”).
- shmeeed 10mo agoYup, a friend's wife used to be a vegetarian. The occasional chicken for dinner never put a dent in that self-assessment.
- xeromal 10mo agoProbably because flesh fell out of fashion?