{"id":104,"date":"2009-11-06T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raebelle.wordpress.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-11-06T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T02:44:47","slug":"misuse-of-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/misuse-of-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Misuse of Vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read an article on BBC, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8341002.stm\">The rise of the non-veggie vegetarian<\/a> and it really struck a cord with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a vegetarian.\u00c2\u00a0 To be extremely specific, I&#8217;m a lacto-ovo vegetarian.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t eat meat but I will consume dairy and egg products.\u00c2\u00a0 I love cheese and eggs and see no need to give them up.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a process over many years for me to become a vegetarian and I did it for personal health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out the misuse of vegetarian by people who consume fish and\/or seafood.\u00c2\u00a0 Those people are pescetarian, not vegetarian.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately it&#8217;s become very common for people to say things like, &#8220;I&#8217;m a vegetarian.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yes, I eat fish.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Which is extremely frustrating.\u00c2\u00a0 For about 6 months I would occasionally eat shrimp, lobster or fish.\u00c2\u00a0 Never during that time did I claim I was vegetarian, because it was <strong>not<\/strong> true.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave up all meat over a year ago and feel comfortable saying I&#8217;m a vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>The very common misuse of the term vegetarian has made my personal life slightly frustrating.\u00c2\u00a0 When I tell people I&#8217;m a vegetarian, I&#8217;m often asked &#8220;But you eat fish, right?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 This gets old fast.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take me long to correct them to the fact that I don&#8217;t eat any meat, but why is the assumption that I would eat meat?\u00c2\u00a0 I used the term vegetarian!<\/p>\n<p>I really wish people who eat some meat would stop misusing the term vegetarian.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t care less that they eat meat, I just don&#8217;t like the assumption that I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read an article on BBC, The rise of the non-veggie vegetarian and it really struck a cord with<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/misuse-of-vegetarian\/\" title=\"Read Misuse of Vegetarian\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}