Fish/Sushi Isn't A Meat Why Don't Vegetarian's Eat It?!
Answers: I mean sushi isnt made in grease, and you eat salads yet bugs get killed from pestcides. Fish is no meat and can be eaten raw.... whats the deal, a bugs just as important as an animal... those bugs suffer. and why not eat bugs there not meat. and you say its a living thing i say you still agree with pesticides which kills them.
most vegetarians or vegans don't eat vegetables that are sprayed with pesticides. you probably need to do a little research of your own. have you ever eaten organic?????
organic = no pesticides
And plants are living things as well. We can't photosynthesize so we can't live without killing. I guess we should all just kill ourselves so we don't have a negative impact on this world!
fish is a meat and vegetarians don't eat anything that was living before. BUG LOVER!!!!
OK you are so over reacting on this matter, vegetables are thoroughly washed and than eaten, and you talking about sushi than also fish is there and that's a meat a white meat, which some vegetarians don't eat.
try to think more and get over it!
Fish is meat... what do you think it is made of, if not meat - vegetables? Fruit? Fungus? Mildew? Soy?
Vegetarians don't eat fish.
Vegetarians don't eat bugs either, and bugs are living creatures as well - they are still animals, albeit insects. Vegetarians don't eat animals.
Choosing organic co-op grown food eliminates the problem of rodents and insects poisoned by pesticides.
Also, eliminating any cruelty from one's diet is an admirable thing to do. I don't understand why you have such disdain for vegetarians, considering that there is no harm caused to you because we choose not to eat meat.
if it has blood running through its veins.......or breathes oxygen, i won't eat it. i think that fish do both.
Vegetarians do eat it. What do you think the Japanese are? They are vegetarians. STRICT vegetarians do not eat it. I would agree with you fish/seafood is not understood in common usage as "meat". "Meat" is understood globally as referring to "red" meat. Fish and seafood are "fish and seafood".
fish is meat duh
you are a moron
I feel like i should write something on this because i am for the most part an ovo vegetarian who occasionally eats sushi. I dont really have much for you though. I think most people who eat vegetarian would prefer organic pesticide free if they could afford it. I'm not really sure pesticides and fish are related. It is an ok arguement to try to convince vegetarians that eating vegetables is as ethical as eat meal worms or something like that i suppose, but even that just feels like a silly purposely arguement. I suppose it all goes back to my general belief that you can't do everything, and so you have to determine your own level of commitment to this type of thing based on what makes the most sense to you based on your own ethics, health concerns and emotions.
You are being abit of rabble rouser.. Fish just like Poultry is still animal flesh.
LOL In some circles of the Raw Foods Community they think eating those bugs is okay. 1st Raw book I got the person did eat raw fish & beef.
It all makes me feel "green" around my gills. ;-}
Slainté(to your health)
you are correct in that the meat packing industry does not consider sealife, fish, or even birds to be meat. however, most vegetarian's problem isn't with eating meat, it's with eating animals. So they eat a plant based diet. Although fish may not be "meat" under all definitions, fish most definitely are animals and are not plants. Therefore, they are not appropriate for vegetarians to eat.
Vegetarians CAN eat vegetable sushi, though, thankfully.
i know it isnt the same thing as mammal meat, and YOU know it's not the smae, but some will get feathers in a ruffle over it
okay well I am a semi vegetarian and I do eat fish
but the reason why I dont eat red meat is because I don't agree in the way the animals are reproduced and treated. It's like a boycott. I don't eat them because they are animals, because I believe animals should be eaten cause other animals eat other animals, and we are animals too.
I just stopped because I disagree with what they are doing to the environment by mass producing cattle.
Because they don't want to.
Actually fish is meat. A person who avoids eating all other meat except for fish is called a pescitarian. :-)
As an official ignorer of the dictionary, biology and any medical science, I completely agree with you that fish are not meat. They are in fact made from mammoth farts and swamp gas. You get a little gold star for the day.
Hi dear. Dr. Skummy here. I just pulled my head out of the dumpster behind the Ritz and saw your query. Query. That word just gives me goose pimples!! Anyways, meat or not, it is animal flesh and vegetarians don't eat it because they don't eat animal flesh. It's fairly simple really, yet much too difficult for the spacious airdomes perched on flexi shoulders.
Come sit on Dr. Skummy's knee (the good one) and I'll tell you about when I lived in Japan. Back in the late 60's, the Japanese were looking for inspiration in the cinematic area. I was chosen from 1000's of other omnivores to have perhaps the greatest Japanese TV cinema star be modeled after me. My finely chiseled and handsome female features were an obvious advantage. Sadly, I was too stupid to read the fine print of the contract (it's kinda dark with my head up my ***!) and I received a pittance for my efforts as the icon went on to fame and fortune. Who was the icon you ask. Godzilla, dear.
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Meat is the flesh of anything. Cows, pigs, fish, nuts. Words are just words. Vegetarians do not eat animals.
There are several definitions of "meat". Vegetarians do not consume animals. Period.
I don't know if English is your first language but meat is a general term.
When you eat nuts, you eat the nut MEATS.
meat
1 a: food; especially : solid food as distinguished from drink b: the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering (as a husk or shell)
When you eat fish, you eat the meat of the fish and leave the bones.
Vegetarians do not eat animals and fish are animals. It doesn't matter what you have to say about what should be called meat and what shouldn't. It is THE most childish argument seen on this forum.
My research concludes that you are a douche.
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@ the troll below me:
Skully is the only person around here that feels the need to put a label on their sexuality as well as everything else.
I have the lady where I eat sushi to make mine only with veggies - they do have such things - and they really are very good. She also washes everything very well and it is very clean.
Veggie dumplings, veggie rolls, spring rolls - all veggie.
All sushi doesn't have fish in it - so it is possible to eat sushi and not be eating any type of meat at all.
You evidently don't know alot about sushi...
I knew someone that said that they were vegetarian then vegan that would eat all sorts of veggies that were not organic that very likely had the bugs sprayed off of them. I on the other hand make no such claim - but have a real problem eating things that are not organic and buy that way and have spoken to others why such is a better approach - not just for the individual but the environment as well. But such is an individual choice.
Just because someone claims a title doesn't mean that they are going to fit within the def. that you believe that the word represents.
Boy, the Catholic Church has sure caused some confusion, haven't they? Not to mention that in the Jewish laws of kashrut, fish isn't considered fleishedig (meat). Kinda messes things up.
But vegetarians do NOT eat the flesh of animals. And last time I checked, fish are animals.
..Are you by any chance in elementary school sweetie?
Fish is a meat. It's ANIMAL. It was alive. TRUE vegetarians don't eat fish....
Anyone who eats fish and calls themself vegetarian is.. a poser..
vegetarians dont just not eat meat...they believe in not eating anything with a face, and fish have faces
Because it is still flesh, no matter what way you cut it. Eating fish doesn't make you a vegetarian.
A pescatarian (sp?) is when you just don't eat meat but eat fish.
Vegetarian is when you don't eat any meat or fish.
Vegan is when you don't consume/wear ANYTHING that came from an animal.
Joseph, why isn't fish "meat"? What definition of "meat" are you basing this on? I'm being serious, not snotty.
See, when I go to even a pretty neutral source like dictionary.com, it clearly defines meat as "the flesh of animals as used for food." Fish are certainly animals, so therefore, it seems that their flesh would be "meat".
With your "bugs" argument, it really sounds like you are grasping at straws. Many vegetarians do what they can to minimize their involvement in the deaths of animals. Many choose to eat organic. Many choose to grow their own pesticide free foods. Some animal deaths are just unavoidable. Vegetarians cannot be held responsible for bugs. It's not a valid argument.
Pesco-vegetarians and flexitarian vegetarians do eat fish/seafood. Several cultures that are vegetarian eat small amounts fish, seafood and sometimes poultry. "Bugs", are sometimes eaten by various cultures.
As a matter of daily practice most people would not consider fish and seafood as "meat". However, if you raise the argument to an academic level, then it is debateable. Personally, I go with what is operative "on the street" to avoid confusion and to be a good communicator. Meat is "meat" and fish and seafood are fish and seafood.
You are correct. Fish in the modern world is considered a vegetable. Myself and my man "friends" prefer the taste of a big, juicy hot dog, covered with lots of creamy mayo. Tonight after I finish up at work, pick up the all of the dollar bills, and kiss the donkey goodnight, I'm gonna find me a big fat weenie.