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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I've been vegetarian basically my whole life. Stopped eating red meat when I was 6, quit chicken at 18.

When I was in my early 30s, I lived overseas someplace where getting real veg food was very difficult. I started eating fish again. I moved back stateside and kept eating it a little.

I still call myself vegetarian, because it's easiest. I don't feel like having a long conversation with every damn person I meet about what pescatarian means, why I eat this fish and not that one, etc etc etc. Vegetarian is the easiest way to describe my diet.

I understand that there's some people on the veg side and others on the meat side who'd get snotty about me calling myself veg. But, you know what, I've had this diet for so long now that I don't feel the need to please anyone with it. It's who I am, and I actually don't care if they like my language or not.[/quote]

+1 Thank you. This is exactly me. Vegetarian since 15, but started eating fish a bit when I lived overseas in my late 20's because it could be hard to find vegetarian foods. I'll explain to people who ask sincerely why I occasionally eat some fish and not others. But really, I don't particularly care if someone gets bent out of shape when I call myself a vegetarian. If I have the option, I'll eat vegetarian at a restaurant or someone's house, but I'd frankly rather have a nice filet of sustainable, wild-caught, Pacific salmon than have a side salad for dinner.[/quote]

So why don't the two of you just say you only eat fish rather than that you're vegetarians?[/quote]

Honestly, because it's too tiring to get into most of the time. And pointless. 99 times out of 100, I am eating all-vegetarian anyway. I eat fish extremely rarely now. It was something I started doing basically out of necessity and now mostly only do when there's nothing else for me to eat. (Like PP said, side salads get really tiresome.)

Also, I feel like vegetarian describes my ethos best. I love animals; I don't want to eat them - I am also a bit of a don't ask don't tell eater if I'm at someone's house and there might be, say, chicken broth in the otherwise veg casserole.

Like PP said, if someone is truly interested, then sure, we can talk about the nuances of my diet. And every once in a while someone is surprised to see me eating a fish taco. But frankly, what I eat just isn't that interesting to most of the world, enough that I feel the need to explain my diet in that much detail.
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