Meaning of vegetarianness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being vegetarian.

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Examples

“First, let’s look at differences in degree of “vegetarianness.” McDougall advises you to go completely vegan for your normal diet, that is to say he advises a 100% exclusion all animal-based products, including skim milk and egg whites. […] Since there are possible benefits to including small amounts of fish in a diet, including, among other things, having a dietary source relatively rich in omega-3 fatty acids, but no likely benefits whatsoever from spending part of one’s limited dietary budget on meat or poultry, I come out between Ornish and the Pritikin Plan on the matter of “vegetarianness.””

“Non-vegetarianness and vegetarianness are also significant qualities of food from a ritual perspective. In both the varldāv and devr Kotas make offerings of boiled millet, vatm kū, in a ritual called eṛ vecd. The difference between this ritual in the dry funeral and god ceremony depends on what is served along with the boiled millet: spiced (ideally buffalo) meat stew for the former and salted mung bean stew (upudk) for the latter.”

“When I had made inquiries into the vegetarianness of the vegetarian spring rolls, they had sworn on a stack of Qur’ans that they were 100% meat-free.”

“Adding to the lack of vegetarian identity some business owners are purposely “deflecting attention away from a product’s vegetarianness . . . to avoid the dreaded pitfall of ‘veg-phobia.’””

“sarah Um I’m… I’m uh mostly vegetarian. / philani (He reaches under the counter and pulls out a jar from his lunch bag.) Ah. I see. This is not an African phenomenon, this vegetarianness. But I think for this, you should make an exception. (He hands her the jar.) Try some. / sarah (looking suspiciously at the jar) These look a lot like pickled eggs.”

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