Flexitarian — The Semi Vegetarian Diet

When writing an article about food for Thanksgiving, I ran across an interesting new word. Flexitarian. Chosen as a “most useful word” by the American Dialect Society in 2003, it describes people who consume plant-based foods primarily but supplement their diets with occasional meat products. A “semivegetarian,” if you will. A little research on the subject suggests that people who eat this way are motivated more by the…