The rise of the non-veggie vegetarian

"VEGETARIANS DO NOT EAT FISH"

5 November 2009

Vegetarianism used to be simple - its protagonists foreswore the flesh of any dead animal. Today there are "veggies" who eat fish, and people who eat no meat but don't call themselves vegetarians.

What happened?(..)

...the Vegetarian Society, which has acted as the custodian of British vegetarianism since 1847, has a simple definition. "A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacean, or slaughter byproducts," it says. They can make that even more pithy: "We don't eat dead things." ....

Source: The rise of the non-veggie vegetarian

Link: Viva!
Link: Vegetarian Society UK