Calling someone “semi-vegetarian” if they eat meat or month 1-4x a month seems fair to me. Even at 4x/month that’s something like 5-10% the amount of meat in the average American’s diet, iiuc.
I agree in conversation, but think wrapping all four categories together and using it to argue for 0 meat consumption is misleading. I think the same thing about combining vegan and lacto-ovo-vegetarian: they’re just pretty different nutritionally.
If the paper were being used to argue against Standard American Diet I think the combining of subcategories would be more reasonable, although still object to the label vegetarian.
Calling someone “semi-vegetarian” if they eat meat or month 1-4x a month seems fair to me. Even at 4x/month that’s something like 5-10% the amount of meat in the average American’s diet, iiuc.
I agree in conversation, but think wrapping all four categories together and using it to argue for 0 meat consumption is misleading. I think the same thing about combining vegan and lacto-ovo-vegetarian: they’re just pretty different nutritionally.
If the paper were being used to argue against Standard American Diet I think the combining of subcategories would be more reasonable, although still object to the label vegetarian.