Frenchetarianism

Now proclaimed forthwith, forsooth, and herewith the term "frenchetarian®™"; culinary vegetarianism. A cross between the French Paradox and moral vegetarianism. As opposed to cynical veganism for people who don't eat honey just so they can gloat, or people that avoid red meat in favor of an all-plaintains-and-spirulina fad diet, frenchetarianism aims for vegetarianism but has allowances in the interests of quality food. A frenchetarian might eat meat if it didn't create more demand from the marketplace and you couldn't taste the bitter suffering of the animal as it was raised swimming in it's own feces. They would aim for vegetarian options wherever possible. Food could be greasy and unhealthy rather than unflavored, unsalted seitan squares. Hopefully this would lead to less imitation meat-style "tastes just like the bacon you know you want" vegetarian food and more development of undefined soy-protein products that look and act nothing like meat (e.g. TVP). It could be a middle ground for more vegetarian options on restaurant menus rather than the broccoli and cauliflour version of whatever it was you actually wanted to get in the first place ("broccoli piccata").

—February 12th, 2007

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