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Sam is characterized as a very strong environmentalist. And as a part of this, they have her follow a ridiculous made up dietary restriction: “ultra-recyclo-vegetarianism”
Which sounds like it’s meant to be all extreme, right? Something ridiculously strict.
Except that it just… isn’t??
For the most part it’s basically just the same as vegetarianism, and in the edge cases, it’s actually less restrictive than being vegetarian.
Because the rule is “don’t eat anything with a face” and for the most part, only animals are gonna have faces. I guess you could make the argument that like something like a venus fly trap has a face, but I don’t think any commonly eaten plants would count as having one unless you really stretch the definition. And unless animal products like milk are grouped in with the animal they’re from, they’re all gonna be permitted too because none of them have faces. So it’s unlikely to meaningfully ban anything that wasn’t already covered by vegetarianism.
But then on the animal side of things, it leaves some allowances that baseline vegetarianism doesn’t. Sure, most animals have faces, but not all, and some of the faceless ones are occasionally eaten (e.g. jellyfish). Heck, depending on how it defines what counts as a face, some decently common food animals like oysters could be permitted.
…though of course this assumes there aren’t other rules beyond that part (e.g. if there’s something about using “scrap” bits to justify including “recycle” in the name)