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The Most Useful Word of the Year Is...
..."flexitarian."
It has nothing to do with being double-jointed. Instead, "flexitarian" means part-time vegetarian, as in vegetarians who experiment with meat and carnivores who seek out vegetarian meals. If doing everything in moderation is the key to good health, becoming a flexitarian ranks right up there.
The Associated Press reports that "flexitarian" was voted as the most useful new word of 2003 by the American Dialect Society. It describes people who are usually vegetarian, but occasionally eat meat. Their motivation for skipping the steak and sausage isn't animal rights so much as the personal health benefits. Just 3 percent of the U.S. population can be classified as true vegetarians; that is, people who do not eat mean, poultry, or fish--ever. "There are so many reasons that people are vegetarians. I find that nobody ever gives me a hard time when I say I usually eat vegetarian. But I really like sausage," flexitarian Christy Pugh from Concord, N.H., confessed to AP. There must be a lot of people doing the same thing as the demand for vegetarian foods has exploded in recent years. Exhibit A: Burger King's veggie burger.
If occasionally seeking out a vegetarian meal is a flexitarian characteristic, then Charles Stahler, co-director of the Baltimore-based Vegetarian Resource Group, estimates that roughly 30 percent to 40 percent of the population could be classified as such.
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