I would just call that being an omnivore
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With extra steps
A healthy balanced diet? Wow
Literally no extra steps lol
Just a healthy balanced diet
Would you call almost all diets except vegetarian being an omnivore (including most people I know that label themselves as carnivores)?
If you're eating veggies, meat, and animal products, I would consider you an omnivore
No disagreement on what an omnivore is
To be more clear: For these other diets would you chastise people for using another label and make pithy comments that they should be saying omnivore instead? If so then carry on I guess, but it seems to be throwing away information and being confrontational simply to sound clever. And if not, why / reevaluate?
Someone who is on the fad "carnivore diet" and who is also eating vegetables is actually on the "omnivore diet"
It means a low meat diet.
Yes, I read it. I'd still call that an omnivorous diet. I don't get the fascination with creating more labels
I don't get the fascination with creating more labels
Ummm because you need words to differentiate how people eat.
Feels like identity politics
It really does, and it's more likely to turn people off from doing this than encouraging it. I already eat a low meat diet, and there's not a chance in hell I'd ever use this word to describe myself. This reeks of vegans coming in and saying "look at this cool new diet we invented!" when it just describes what much of humanity already does
You people always find weird things to complain about even though this is more approachable than switching to plant-based over night.
And "you people" are incredibly presumptuous
Donβt change, ignore the evidence on how eating less meat is healthier.
I don't get all the complaints here. Im so far to weak to go vegan and my wife is much worse. I like eating as little meat as possible. We don't both need a chicken breast we can split one. Avoiding beef. I mean I understand that factory farmed meat like it or not is worse for the environment and the amount of meat the world would eat without factory farming is very small.
more "science" undermined by it's reliance on poore-nemecek 2018.