It's not necessarily hypocritical
My personal position is that I mistrust modern farming and avoid farmed meats. I'll eat sea fish and game, and will eat other meat if I know its provenance, but mostly I eat vegetarian food, and for simplicity I say I'm a vegetarian. I don't have any moral objection to eating meat per se, and I'm pragmatic enough about it to not get too insistent if I'm somewhere like the Czech Republic, my current location, where vegetarianism means fried cheese if you're lucky, and where my vegan grandmother was once told 'it's not meat, it's sausage'.

Other perfectly valid moral stances include avoiding meat according to how intelligent the animal is (and thus how much it can be said to suffer). I know someone that will eat any meat except pork, squid and octopus by this principle. You nay not agree, but you can't deny it's consistent.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sat 21 Feb 2009, 21:46, 4 replies)

I used to live in the Czech Republic, and had a vegetarian girlfriend there.
I used to eat tlacenka with vinegar and onions in front of her. She was always very understanding.
If you're in Prague there's a decent veggie restaurant called Radost. Or you could just stick to the fried cheese, that stuff is worse than crack.
( Zuowan, Sat 21 Feb 2009, 22:01, closed)

*nods*
I've heard of this stance and agree that consistency is the key. level of cruelty, intelligence etc. that's all opinion. each to his own.

The problem I have is that you're not a vegetarian. If you don't want to have to explain your personal choice on which foods you feel are morally acceptable then why say anything?
(Ginger_Whinger got in the newsletter!! =D, Sat 21 Feb 2009, 22:29, closed)

Because...
I don't want to get into some big moral discussion every time I want to go round to a friend's for a meal or travel on a plane. Everyone knows what a vegetarian is, but there isn't a word for my particular position, so why, er, make such a meal out of it?
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sat 21 Feb 2009, 23:09, closed)

Flatfrog
Being a particular fan of pork (bacon), squid (calamari) and octopus (particularly the baby octopus in bbq/tomato/brine sauce you can buy in tins in Spain), could you get some further explanation of this from the person. Especially as pigs are considered one of the brainiest farm animals! And come to think of it, aren't Octopus considered considered very clever as well, on the same level as squirrels?

Ask them if they'd eat a squirrel?!

*Edit. You said "will eat...Except". I take it all back. I am the IQ eater.
(Big Smurf Brush me daddy-O, Sat 21 Feb 2009, 23:42, closed)

Its not meat its sausage
Is technically correct.

Well its not meat that you would recognise
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 21:55, closed)