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So you haven’t gone vegetarian then - you just don’t eat meat a lot.

I disagree. My eating choices have resulted in the deliberate slaughter of a single animal (to the best of my ability to track this) over a 1.5 year period. I've refused all meat except the meat that comes from that animal, and even then I eat it only rarely. I will refuse meat from other sources -- friends and family, restaurants, prepackaged foods, cheeses with rennet, gelatin, etc.

Being a vegetarian or not has fuzzy boundaries and many denominations. It's much, much simpler for everyone involved to view me as vegetarian, even if it's not a strict, 100% no meat for years definition.

Half of cow meat in UK comes from used dairy cows. Every dairy cow has to give birth 8-12 times and over half of those born calfs are boys. As they are no use otherwise, they get slaughtered immediately after they are born for their tender meat. By eating diary of any kind you're doing as much harm to animals as you'd by directly buying steak. You're also doing more harm to your body as quality meat is better for health (still bad) than cheese.

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