demitarian
English
editEtymology
editFrom demi- + -arian, modeled after vegetarian. Coined by the Nitrogen in Europe programme within the The Barsac Declaration, lauched in November 2009. [1]
Adjective
editdemitarian (comparative more demitarian, superlative most demitarian)
- (uncommon) Of or relating to the type of diet in which meat consumption is reduced to half of what is culturally typical; of or relating to demitarianism. [from 2009]
- 2014, Kimberly Etingoff, editor, Organic Agricultural Practices: Alternatives to Conventional Agricultural Systems, Apple Academic Press, page 71:
- Nitrogen budget of the agricultural system of the Seine watershed for the current situation (2006) and the organic and local (OrgLoc) and organic, local and demitarian (OrgLocDem) scenarios.
- 2015, Josh Friedland, Eatymology: The Dictionary of Modern Gastronomy, Sourcebooks, page 60:
- Professor Mark Sutton is credited with coining the concept of a demitarian diet, whereby one reduces meat consumption by half in order to stem environmen tal damage associated with meat production.
- 2016, Patricia M. Glibert, Todd M. Kana, editors, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A Dual Perspective, Springer International Publishing, pages 192-193:
- Thus, a group of scientist published the Barsac declaration advocating a “Demitarian diet,” i.e., a reduction by a factor two of the portion of meat and milk in the Western human diet.
- 2020, Mark A. Sutton, Kate E. Mason, Albert Bleeker, W. Kevin Hicks, Cargele Masso, N. Raghuram, Stefan Reis, Mateete Bekunda, editors, Just Enough Nitrogen: Perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen, Springer International Publishing, page 6:
- Such changes in consumption patterns as a consequence of reduced animal protein intake due to adopting a demitarian diet, may amplify or weaken these effects. Building on the work of Westhoek et al. (2014), these authors considered a demitarian scenario, where European meat and dairy intake were halved, linking this also with potential health benefits associated with avoidance of excessive intake.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mark Sutton, Albert Bleeker, Carly Stevens (2009 November 25) “The Barsac Declaration: Environmental sustainability and the demitarian diet”, in NinE[1], archived from the original on 2024-07-18: “b. Implement this commitment through promotion of the 'demitarian' option, which we define as a meal containing half the amount of meat or fish compared with the normal local alternative, combined with a correspondingly larger amount of other food products,”
Further reading
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Flexitarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
