#pescetarian

They think that, if they're vegetarian or vegan, then it's a strict hard pass / rejection to eating anything that's meat or egg / dairy (depending).

I'm Pescetarian.

I will eat chicken and pork sometimes. Rarely beef.

I'm still Pescetarian.

But there's these weird people out there that go "ButButBut! You ate chicken the other day???"

Yes. I did. The real world (anything outside of your weird white-colonial consumerism bubble) doesn't actually treat dietary preferences / baseline as a strict religious dogma. Perfectionism is not a thing in the majority of the rest of the world. They also don't make it their whole identity.

It's about relationship with food, resource, accessibility, and waste mindfulness.

weeee heres my old go to one pot meal from when i ate dead aminals, for the plant based ppl just replace the fish with your preferred tofu texture (extra firm silken is the closest to a flaky salmon imo!) and the mayo with vegannaise

add all this to a rice cooker, in this order:

1 cup rice (rinsed)

1 cup water

1 or 2 baby bokchoy, sliced

a pinch of salt and MSG

a salmon steak on top (score with a knife first to absorb more flavor)

then you're gonna mix 2 Tbsp soy sauce, 1 Tbsp sesame oil, and 1 Tbsp teriyaki sauce together and pour that over the salmon, then just set it to cook and your veggies and fish will steam while the rice cooks !

Stop.

Thats not veganism. You're allowed to call yourself vegetarian. You're allowed to call yourself pescetarian. You're allowed to call yourself plant-forward.

You cannot be vegan if you engage in intentional exploitation. You cannot "be vegan but cheese". You cannot "be vegan but fish". There are different words for that.

And words have meaning.

It takes time to switch for most of us. I'm not discouraging that. Vegetarianism and pescetarianism does more than carnivorous diets, it's still reducing harm, and it's often the first step that long-term vegans took.