demitarian

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English

Etymology

From demi- +‎ -arian, modeled after vegetarian. Coined by the Nitrogen in Europe programme within the The Barsac Declaration, launched in November 2009.

Pronunciation

Adjective

demitarian (comparative more demitarian, superlative most demitarian)

  1. (uncommon) Of or relating to the type of diet in which meat consumption is reduced to half of what is culturally typical; of or relating to demitarianism.
    • 2014, Kimberly Etingoff, editor, Organic Agricultural Practices: Alternatives to Conventional Agricultural Systems, Apple Academic Press, page 71:
      Nitrogen budget of the agricultural system of the Seine watershed for the current situation (2006) and the organic and local (OrgLoc) and organic, local and demitarian (OrgLocDem) scenarios.
    • 2015, Josh Friedland, Eatymology: The Dictionary of Modern Gastronomy, Sourcebooks, page 60:
      Professor Mark Sutton is credited with coining the concept of a demitarian diet, whereby one reduces meat consumption by half in order to stem environmen tal damage associated with meat production.
    • 2016, Patricia M. Glibert, Todd M. Kana, editors, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A Dual Perspective, Springer International Publishing, pages 192-193:
      Thus, a group of scientist published the Barsac declaration advocating a “Demitarian diet,” i.e., a reduction by a factor two of the portion of meat and milk in the Western human diet.
    • 2020, Mark A. Sutton, Kate E. Mason, Albert Bleeker, W. Kevin Hicks, Cargele Masso, N. Raghuram, Stefan Reis, Mateete Bekunda, editors, Just Enough Nitrogen: Perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen, Springer International Publishing, page 6:
      Such changes in consumption patterns as a consequence of reduced animal protein intake due to adopting a demitarian diet, may amplify or weaken these effects. Building on the work of Westhoek et al. (2014), these authors considered a demitarian scenario, where European meat and dairy intake were halved, linking this also with potential health benefits associated with avoidance of excessive intake.

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References

  1. ^ Mark Sutton, Albert Bleeker, Carly Stevens (25 November 2009) “The Barsac Declaration: Environmental sustainability and the demitarian diet”, in NinE‎, archived from the original on 18 July 2024: “b. Implement this commitment through promotion of the 'demitarian' option, which we define as a meal containing half the amount of meat or fish compared with the normal local alternative, combined with a correspondingly larger amount of other food products,”

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