I just looked up Pescatarian, seems like i am an ovo lactose one, cause i eat fish and eggs wtf, im a veggie, screw the added words
I am, technically speaking, a pescatarian, but I certainly don't waste any time with categories and labels.
I haven't (deliberately) eaten 'land-flesh' for coming up on sixteen or seventeen years. I kind of like that ridiculous term...
But then the reason I inconvenience myself so is nothing to do with health or righteousness, and I'm completely non-prescriptive: you have whatever the hell you like on your plate. If I had the opportunity to hunt and kill rabbit, deer, boar or what-have-you, I'd be happy to consume it; in fact, if I
had killed such creatures, I'd damned well insist on eating them so that they didn't die pointlessly, but for the moment I manage a healthy and very enjoyable diet without doing so--and so I prefer not to. To be honest, I know that I have got decidedly more squeamish about such activities as I've aged. When younger, I ate my catch on fishing trips and gutted a rabbit with my knife, but I'm more than a bit rusty and I suspect may baulk at doing so today--I'd have to see.
I believe Alan Clark had a similar philosophy. I recall reading in his diaries how he had served up venison he had killed personally, a rare-step beyond his fairly strict vegetarianism that extended to protesting against live-exports.
The memorable exchange below between Alan Clarke and John Pilger shows how you can get rather tied in knots as soon as you lay down principles you wish to extend beyond your own consciousness and into that of others. People generally do what they are comfortable doing, and what they are comfortable doing is a product of a great many facts. I'm happy with people eating (and not eating) whatever they feel comfortable with. It also shows that 'vegetarians = nice' is far from being a necessary truth. Most people in history had not the luxury of agonising over their sustenance. As far as I am concerned, decent meat substitutes are welcome as they a) make everybody's life easier, b) provide more options. Who doesn't want a larger menu to order from?
The fact that a small proportion of vegan/vegetarians believe that there could be a conspiracy to force them clandestinely to eat meat against their will is a product of pure paranoia. My experience is that the first and only time most omnivorous people give thought to the dietary prohibitions of others is when they've been socially inconvenienced or inadequately hosted by them. The 'reprisal', if any, will be an end to future invites! In contrast, a hardcore of vegans seem to believe that 'meat-eater = morally bad', and as the morally bad are capable of treachery,
they might be smuggling meat into me! In reality, the more realistic equation should be 'most people = lazy, incurious and uninterested in others', which doesn't offer much grounds for supposing a conspiracy in action.
Source:
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id...KYKHZmWCbMQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false