Yourong Frank Wang

Vegetarianism Spectrum

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When attending FW social cooking sessions, please select and report your level of vegetarianism according to the following table.

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  • 0.0 Eats all terran material considered food
  • Here we go
    • 0.02 Avoids meat from land-based carnivorous mammals
    • 0.05 Avoids all red meat (nutritionally defined, e.g., beef and lamb)
  • 0.1 Avoids meat from all mammals
  • 0.2 Avoids meat from birds and mammals
  • 0.3 Avoids all land animals1
  • 0.4 Avoids all vertebrates (pescetarianism)
  • 0.5 Avoids all food that requires killing a living animal (typical vegetarianism)
  • 0.6 In addition to 0.5, avoids eggs
  • 0.7 In addition to 0.6, avoids dairy products
  • 0.8 Avoids all animal-derived foods (strict veganism)
  • 0.9 In addition to 0.8, avoids fungi
  • 1.0 Eats only plant-derived foods (strict botanical diet)

  • 1.1 In addition to 1.0, avoids seeds
  • 1.2 In addition to 1.1, avoids tubers and any part that can naturally develop into a full plant
  • 1.3 Eats only seedless fruits
  • 1.4 Avoids all eukaryotic organisms
  • 1.5 Eats only microbial secretions (e.g., citric acid) and chemically synthesized substances
  • 1.6 Eats only purely chemically synthesized substances (excluding products from biological fermentation)
  • 1.7 In addition to 1.6, synthetic substances cannot originate from fossil fuels
  • 1.8 Avoids all organic matter, relies on photosynthesis
  • 1.9 No material exchange with the outside world, only energy exchange

  • 2.0 Is a thermodynamically isolated system
  1. We don’t do cheat definitions like beaver tails. ↩︎

Of course, please also report food allergies separately.

… some one year after this post I realise dietary preference might better be modelled like library codes, and this spectrum is only as useful as it is hilarious near the end.

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