Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Day

"I'm pretty much a vegetarian" is the kind of line a seasoned British journalist could deploy like a pocketknife: small, unflashy, and designed to do quiet work. The hedge words matter. "Pretty much" is both confession and escape hatch, a calibrated refusal to be pinned down. Day isn’t announcing a creed; he’s managing expectations. It signals personal preference while preemptively dodging the sanctimony and absolutism that often cling to food politics. The sentence performs moderation as an identity - not purity, not performance, not martyrdom.

For a journalist, especially one forged in the mid-to-late 20th-century British media culture where dinner-table etiquette and public self-presentation were practically a second language, that nuance is strategic. Vegetarianism can read as moral argument, class marker, generational shift, even political posture. Day’s phrasing disarms those readings without pretending they don’t exist. It’s a way of saying: I’ve made a choice, I’m not recruiting, and I reserve the right to be inconsistent.

The subtext is about credibility. Reporters trade in authority, and authority can be undermined by seeming doctrinaire. By framing the choice as approximate, Day preserves the persona of the pragmatic observer: someone who can hold a view without turning it into a banner. It’s also quietly comic in its understatement - a British rhetorical shrug that acknowledges the modern appetite for labels, then declines to wear one too tightly.