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pollo-pescetarian 

Regarding dietary habit, a combination of pollotarian (one who eats poultry and no other meat) and pescetarian (one who eats seafood and no other meat) for describing one with a relatively simple restriction, usually based on ethical value, religious faith, or personal taste -- one who does not eat red meat, but only "white" meat and animal by-products; basically, one who does not eat mammals.
Person 1: "Hey, do you want some bacon?"

Person 2: "No thanks, I'm just going to have some chicken. I'm a pollo-pescetarian."

Person 1: "What the fuck is that?"

Person 2: "Someone who doesn't eat red meat."

Person 1: "Why? Are you a religious nut or something?"

Person 2: "No, I just believe that there is a point where the evolutionary advancement of an animal, and its ability to experience emotion, its ability to feel pain, its intelligence, its sociable tendencies, its size -- really its connection to the human race -- is far too advanced for us to allow ourselves to systematically kill them for food we do not need. There are few biological distinctions between dogs and pigs, or humans and most mammals for that matter."

Person 1: "Oh... eh, bacon tastes too good."

Person 2: *facepalm*
pollo-pescetarian by Triforceful April 24, 2011
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Pollo-Pescetarian 

Pollo-pescetarian (AKA pesco-pollotarian, pollo-pesco-vegetarian, demi-vegetarian) is an obscure way to refer to redmeat (all mammal meat) abstinence.

“Pollo” is Italian for “chicken” (“pollame” is poultry so “polla” would be precise). “Pescetarian” is borrowed from the term describing incorporating seafood into an otherwise vegetarian diet (modern term but centuries-old practice).

Due to seafood being a separate food group than meat in culinary & health contexts pescetarians were often conflated with vegetarians before their own term existed. Whether seafood is usually counted as a meat in general-context varies w/ region, age, culture & religion.

Labeling oneself a pollo-pescetarian may be met with scrutiny & negativity. This can be because:
•The word is unknown and long-winded
•It’s less simple than saying “No red meat”
•Respecting red meat abstinence only as a “transitional step” not as its own end goal
•Accepting a new label often entails a degree of perceived difficulty &/or novelty (also why people who identify as flexitarian get mocked). Limiting red meat is common, chicken is the #1 meat in America & eaten daily and is always available
•Vegetarians may resent the label if they interpret it as an attempt to be perceived as similar to them. The public may resent it if they judge it as an attempt to distance oneself from other meat-eaters to feel special
Frank: “I won’t eat pork or beef but I do eat chicken, turkey, fish and shrimps very often — some people call it being a pollo-pescetarian”

Alexis: “Who exactly? Who has ever called it that?”

Frank: “I saw it online okay? Leave me alone. I can call myself what i want”.
Pollo-Pescetarian by IbreathAir October 28, 2022

Porcus-Pollo-Pescetarian 

A person who doesn't eat beef, but does eat Poultry, Fowl, Pork, and Fish.
No, he also eats Pork, he's a Porcus-Pollo-Pescetarian.
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