MEAT AND POULTRY ten points yo!!?!
if you don;t eat meat, then that means you still eat chicken because that's poultry...
can someone explain it to me..
thanks!!
Answers: is there a difference??
if you don;t eat meat, then that means you still eat chicken because that's poultry...
can someone explain it to me..
thanks!!
Think of flesh. Meat is flesh. Chicken is flesh.
Well chicken is considered meat, so if you are a vegetarian or vegan you don't eat meat or poultry because they are both some type of meat.
"Poultry" refers to chickens, turkeys, ducks, and other domestic fowls raised for their meat or eggs.
"Meat" is defined as the edible flesh of animals.
Vegetarians don't eat any animal flesh, and this includes the flesh of chickens, turkeys, etc.
Hope this helps explain it.
Edit:
To jillie_len_5 - your friend is NOT a vegetarian if she eats any meat. The definition of a vegetarian is a person who doesn't eat animal flesh.
Um depends who you are and what you classify things into? I dont knoe :] lol.
But yeah chicken IS poultry... but usually when you say you dont eat meat, you mean you dont eat chicken to -even though it is technically poultry, most people refer to it as meat..-
Well, if you dont eat meat, but you eat this... 'poultry' then you would just be called a Red Meat vegetarian -meaning you dont eat red meats-
Meat is the flesh of an animal. Poultry is a subcategory of meat. So, all poultry is meat, but not all meat is poultry.
Vegetarians don't eat any type of meat, which includes poultry and fish, the other type of meat that some people are confused about.
Jillie, a person who sometimes eats meat is an omnivore like anyone else. It simply defies the definition of vegetarian, which is not to eat dead animal flesh. Sounds like your friend is gunning for a label that sounds cool.
Officially a vegetarian does not eat any meat. I've heard people call themselves vegetarians that only don't eat red meat (they eat chicken and fish), but really that's just a "partial vegetarian." If you're a vegetarian 90% of the time but ate a little meat once in a while for health reasons(or whatever) you'd be considered a "flexible vegetarian." Most vegetarians eat no animal flesh but still eat eggs and dairy. If you have no animal products at all (and many won't wear leather either), you're a vegan.
Vegetarians don't eat animals. This includes land animals, birds, and sea animals. Poultry is a subcategory of meat. It is a TYPE of meat (like a chicken is a type of bird).
Odd fact -- according to the US government, rabbits are considered poultry. (It's so they can be kept in horrible conditions and killed inhumanely like chickens etc.. are.)
I'm a vegetarian, and I don't eat meat or poultry.
there's not an actual kind of vegetarian that eats poultry.
just some people don't eat meat, and so they call themselves vegetarians.
poultry=meat=rotting amimal carcass=groosss.
If oyu dont eat meat, you dont eat anything that has ever had a face! that includs poulty, fish, other seafoods, and red meat as well. If you want to explain that you eat poulty but not read meat then you wouldnt say "i dont eat meat" because that means you are a lacto-ovo vegetarian, you would insted say "I dont eat RED meat" hope that makes it clear.
Being a vegetarian/vegan means you don't eat ANYTHING with a face, and poultry/meat/and seafood have a face, therefore you don't eat it. MEAT generally means anything that was once alive and has a face, and most people refer to it as that.
Kamie.....scallops, oysters, mussels, and several dozens of life forms that fall within the classification of "animalia" don't have faces. Please stop the mis-information.
Meat means food from flesh of animals
Poultry is food from flesh of bird/fowl animals
Therefore poultry is meat.
We're talking about a confusion between different classification systems.
Sometimes "meat" means any food made from the flesh of an animal.
Sometimes "meat" means only red meat and does not include poultry, fish or shell fish.
However, "meat" can also mean any satisfying food whether animal based or not. This meaning is pretty old fashioned and I don't think very many people use the word that way anymore.
The orginal meaning of "vegetarianism" was to describe the practice of not eating animal flesh. Some people confuse the first two meanings and call themselves "vegetarian" if they don't eat red meat but continue to eat poultry/fish/shellfish.
As a vegetarian, I find that annoying, but the confusion seems to be so widespread that I don't think there's anything I can do to change it. For example, one of best friends for about 30 years recently asked me if I eat fish.
meat is the flesh of an animal. An animal is any living thing that is not a plant, a bacteria or a fungus. This includes fish, birds, insects etc.
Poultry is the meat of a bird. Fish is the meat of a fish. Pork is the meat of a pig etc.
My friend is a vegetarian but she still eats meat. She stills wants the protein and nutrients just in a little healthier way!