Word for someone who abstains from eating mammal-derived foods (meat and milk)

Question

Is there a single word that refers to someone who doesn't eat food derived from mammals? This person would eat fish and other seafood, poultry, eggs, but would not eat the meat of mammals, nor anything made from the milk of mammals.

Answer 1

As far as I can see, there is not an established English term to describe this. However, I think I found a neologism...

Pollotarian

A pollotarian is someone who eats poultry but not red meat or pork products.

-HealthLine.com

People choose this dietary pattern for various reasons. For some, becoming pollotarian is a step towards becoming vegetarian, while others are more concerned about the health and environmental effects of eating red meat.

It is not an exact match, but your criteria are extremely specific, and may not have a a useful term...

Answer 2

I've been calling myself an amammiovore (from "not mammal eating" in Greek and Latin) for over 30 years now since I have been an amammiovore for almost 46 years. I still think amammiovore is the best term I have seen. That is what I call myself as someone who has very specifically refrained from eating mammals ("red meat" is not the right term) since 1978. I coined the word myself as I simply wanted a name for my very specific condition since there was none that I could find over 30 years ago.

I have a degree in biology, which is non-negligeable credentials for supporting my answer.

However, I simply cannot call myself a mafist (or mafism as used to describe the condition), which apparently is currently the term in vogue, as I recently have discovered. Mafist doesn't ring true to my inner being. The term has no clear etymological foundation to it that I can discern and has unpleasant associations of words that are close to it in spelling (e.g., mafia), or words that are irrelevant. Maia is Greek for mother, but not eating mammals has nothing to do with mothers per se, other than mammalian mothers make breast milk. Other non-mammalian species have females and thus “mothers” too. The "fist" sounds closed, with Germanic and Indo-European roots, when being an amammiovore is more spiritually open sounding and is in the same etymological and biological naming tradition of "carnivore" (meat eating) or "herbivore" (plant eating). Fist could also be fest, but there is nothing festive about not eating mammals either. I have been in military feasts where the whole table had to wait until my seafood dish came out since the cook had forgotten to comply with my specific request and by protocol they could not start on their prime rib until I had been served. Like I said, I don't make exceptions. If you prefer mafist, that's fine, and use that term. However, I like the word "amammiovore" better because it is etymologically based on Latin and Greek and has a more open spiritual feel to it. To each his or her own.