Fake vegetarians who have co-opted the term to
make themselves feel
better and/or undermine the identity of actual vegetarians.
Gopi Kallayil, a blogger for Huffington
Post and Marketer for Google, claims to have invented this term to describe himself.
PV: I am a vegetarian, but I
love hamburgers and steak and will eat them if there is
nothing else around.
AV: Well then, you are not really a vegetarian, are you?
PV: Sure I am, I just made up a new
definition of vegetarian. I call it "Practical Vegetarian".
AV: What a great idea! I am going to start calling myself a doctor, even though I never went to medical school. I am a "practical doctor"!