Cruelty to chickens?!
Answers: why are people so obsessed with how we treat chickens or cows but could care less about fish. Just because chickens are cuter than fish doesn't mean we can't protect fish too! All you hypocritical vegetarians please answer!
You do have a point there
(not a vegan or vegetarian) but I do think that if you're going to narrow it down to which animal receives the least amount of suffering during life and death, I'd go w/fish. Even when they are farmed fish, they still have room to swim.
Honey, real vegetarians don't eat fish either, by definition they don't eat any meat at all.
But the thing is, some people choose to eat fish but otherwise follow a vegetarian diet. They aren't vegetarians per se, though, there's a seperate blanket term for them (pescatarian or pescivore).
I don't eat fish or anything else that comes from animals (dairy, eggs). I eat an entirely plant based diet.
I think that there's the notion that fish suffer less, or that overfishing and sea life harvesting practices are less damaging to the environment than most other meat. I don't agree with that personally.
Also the Catholic church calls for some days to be "meat free" fast days, and yet they eat fish, which is where the really strange notion that fish isn't made out of meat might have sprung from (what is it then, a fruit? vegetable? fungus?).
Personally I don't care what people eat, I just get annoyed when people say they are vegetarian but then order seafood at restaurants because then if I go to the same restaurant the staff might think fish sauce, anchovies or other ingredients are OK for vegetarians. I just don't like the confusion it creates. Definitions are there for a reason.
I feel the same way, I have never had fish or any other sea animals. Often, people are misinformed and they think that vegetarians can eat fish! NOT TRUE!
Real vegetarians do not eat sea animals!
The only fish I ever ate when I did was wild caught Salmon.
I never supported those farm raised factories that have millions of fish in one pool, routinely giving them chemical feed to make them bigger. And because the pool isn't big enough for all the fish, they're swimming in eachother's feces. Doesn't sound very appealing to me, even if I did have an appetite for them..
So no, I don't support "cruelty to fish". I don't support cruelty to any living thing. The "vegetarians" that say they eat fish are not vegetarians...they're people that give the real truly committed ones a bad name.
That's why I don't eat fish either. I've had pet fish that I named, cared for and grew attached to, so why would I kill and eat a fish just because I don't "konw" it? But there is a big difference - a cow is a mammal, a chicken is a bird and a fish is a fish. If I had to choose, I'd rather eat a fish than a mammal.
hypocritical is the right word for those who eat fish and call themselves vegetarians, but not the right word for most of the vegetarians and vegans on this forum. personally, i don't eat meat, including fish! if i did eat fish, i would be a pescatarian. if people want to label themselves so badly they should use the right term...i'm tired of people thinking i can eat fish.
anyway, i think the reason that such an argument is made over other animals more than it's made over fish is simply that fish is less popular in general. there are many people who are not veg and have never eaten seafood and never will. but almost every non-veg american has had beef, chicken, AND pork. fish is simply not as widespread a problem, but that doesn't make it any less cruel.
As vegetarians do not eat fish..........
Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products.[1] The reasons for choosing vegetarianism may be related to morality, religion, culture, ethics, aesthetics, environment, society, economy, politics, taste, or health.
You seem to be mis-informed, but I will agree with you that fish suffer too, and we should try and protect all chicken, fish, cows, etc!
You might of got better answers if you didn't come in calling Vegetarians hypocrites.
Hey! Cows are the prettiest....
You do know that vegetarians don't eat fish, don't you? And that many activists are aware that fish feel pain? Before you attack us, kindly do some research.
I eat all meat, chicken, and fish with the same excitement! It's called the food chain.
people who eat fish are semi-vegetarians