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Semi-vegetarianism is a term used to describe the practice of excluding some meat (particularly red meat) from the diet while still consuming limited amounts of poultry, fish, and/or seafood.^[1][2] In many references, a semi-vegetarian is also a flexitarian or "almost vegetarian". The term semi-vegetarian is sometimes also referred to as a diet that excludes "red meat". Semi-vegetarian diets are not vegetarian diets, which exclude ingestion of all animal flesh.^[3][4]

[edit] Criticism

Semi-vegetarianism is often criticised by people who assert that one cannot be "semi-vegetarian" or vegetarian only occasionally. According to such criticisms, a vegetarian is someone who consistently keeps to a diet that excludes all animal products or is, at the least, lacto-ovo. Semi-vegetarianism and the related term "flexitarianism" have been dubbed "problematic" and "diametrically opposed to vegetarianism".^[5]

[edit] Types

• Flexitarianism - Mostly avoiding all meat, but eating it under some situations.
• Pollotarianism - Mammalian meat, fish, and seafood is excluded, but chicken or other poultry is not.
• Pescetarianism - Mammalian meat and poultry is excluded, but fish and seafood are not.

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