flexitarian

A relatively new term, flexitarian comes from a combination of the words "flexible" and "vegetarian."

He became what he calls a flexitarian, someone who occasionally eats meat or fish.

Why flexitarian?

Vegetarians of every type, from the "flexitarian" (occasional meat eater) to the strict vegan, have gone mainstream.

In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word and defined it as "a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat".

In The Flexitarian Diet, author Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, says being a "flexitarian" gives you the benefits of a vegetarian diet without having to forgo meat entirely.

And its insistence in exchanging plant for animal products, despite the obvious influence of the dairy industry in the overall recommendations, points the way to the semivegetarian (or flexitarian, to use an up-and-coming word) diet that is becoming increasingly common.