I wouldn't call him a vegetarian any more than I'd call a vulture an herbivore, but I honesty don't see what's wrong with what he's doing. It might be kind of gross and I personally wouldn't eat his cooking, but I don't see anything ethically wrong with it.
Imagine going to dinner and someone saying "Here, i cooked you this fox I found at the side of the road, vegetarians eat roadkill, right?"
He is a more compassionate meat eater than the rest who hunt or but farmed but in no way shape or form a vegetarian. He can say he only purchases vegetarian food but it's not all he eats, even if it is all he buys.
A lot of people here are sensitive about this because when people who eat fish or chicken call themselves vegetarians, other people assume all vegetarians eat fish and chicken. Sometimes this results in being told that "Yes, there will be vegetarian food at this gathering" and then being handed a tuna sandwich. It is just a label, but the definition of the word clearly states "no meat" and you are misusing it if you say otherwise.
I don't know, I thought it was a cool article. i have a friend who's now living in a yurt (used to be the gifted teacher at our school and is extremely gifted herself) who ate road kill. She's now gone, as they say, off the grid.
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