vegetarians: what do you guys think about pescetarians?!
but personally, i commend them for at least giving up some meat, i mean they arent doing any harm, and who knows maybe it can be a gateway, and some of them will eventually become vegetarian or even vegan
what do you think
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I don't think anything of them,
except that they're omnivores,
like everyone else.
Well, I don't have a problem with them, and I *do* commend them for giving up some meat. The problem comes when they call themselves vegetarians, because it leads people (including restaurant employees) to think that if you say you're vegetarian, you eat fish. Therefore, a 'real' vegetarian (somebody who eats no meat of any type, including chicken or fish) may recieve a soup that has fish in it, or some sort of anchovy oil in their salad dressing, etc. So in the end, they *are* doing harm if they're using the wrong terminology, because people start to think that vegetarians can eat fish, too.
Vegetarian of almost a year.
It's their body, what they put in it is not my problem. I frankly don't care what others eat, and so long as they leave my dietary choices alone, I'll leave their dietary choices alone. Pretty much everyone knows about the cruelty and misery domestic farm animals go through, if they can live with that, so be it. Could I eat meat knowing how much the animal it came from suffered? No. But some people can. As for pescetarians incorecctly referring to themselves as vegetarians, I think it's very ignorant and shows a general lack of knowledge of their lifestyle or a lack of self esteem. If you eat fish, that's fine, but don't lie about it. For those who eat fish and honestly have no clue they're not a vegetarian, well that is pure ignorance, and they need to research the lifestyle they are trying to live more before opening their mouths.
Vegetarian for 12 years
I think its fine as long as the say they are pescetarian. But meat is meat at the end of it. I commend them for giving up some form of meat and only eating something that lives freely and has a great life like that. I still don't think its right but its better than nothing. I think its a bit hypocritical saying I will only eat certain types of meat or eat fish more to replace the meat they would have eaten. It does sort of annoy me when my friend who eats loads of fish calls herself a vegetarian. But its not against the law to eat meat and some people don't see it as wrong. I personally have got to the stage where I think that it looks like it would taste good but I couldn't eat it anymore because I really connect with that it was once an animal and had suffered to be there. Still I think really you should be able to do whatever you feel ethically right doing. For me that would be vegan but for other people they may feel fine eating meat. I think everyone in their life should try vegetarianism though, just to give it a go. I don't think anyone actually enjoys the idea that something died to be on their plate, just some people say "its natural" which I think are just excuses really. :S
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Like you said, they deserve recognition for giving up some meat! They might not be ready yet to do the best thing for the animals and the environment--going fully vegetarian or vegan. But at least they are willing to do SOMETHING proactive for our planet.
Besides, no Vegan is perfect. There is always some person or creature that is harmed for the products or food we use. The point is that we try to avoid animal products and things that hurt animals as much as possible, to the best of our ability. The holier-than-thou 'perfect' vegans are making the rest of us look judgmental and mean.
Power to the pescatarians. Once they see how easy it is to eliminate the land animals from their diet, they usually transition over to vegetarianism pretty quickly.
Vegan
I'm vegetarian, not vegan and not pescatarian. The issue is that it makes the term vegetarian imprecise. There's correct terms (pescatarian, lacto-veg, ovo-veg, vegan) that should be used. The term pescatarian acknowledges that they've given something up.
There's no morality associated with what the person does or does not eat, but only an issue of imprecise language, because then a vegetarian has to go further into explaining: no fish, no shellfish, no chicken broth, etc. It takes up real time at restaurants, lunch meetings, etc. to explain the difference, when keeping the language precise would have been so much easier.
What do I care what title someone chooses. If you're a Pescatarian who calls herself a Vegetarian, que sara. King Oliver, Duke Ellington and Ella, the Queen of Song, Fitzgerald were none of them Kings, Dukes or Queens. Labels are labels.
If they give up *some* meat, they are still meat eaters and not vegetarian.
But it's their choice, and I really don't care what others do.
Edit: I don't think there is a gateway. Either one becomes vegetarian, or not. Some seafoods are far worse than processed meats...
i commend them (pescetarian's) too for stepping out of the largely carnivorous society that we (vegetarians) did as well. i just wouldn't;t want to be a pescetarian because, for me the word 'pescetarian' sounds far too much like a religious belief!
If they're doing it for health reasons, I don't care, even though fish really is not that healthy. If they're doing it for ethical and/or environmental reasons, I think they're huge hypocrites.
vegan :D
They're not cheaters, they're pescetarians- not vegetarians.
Well I don't think anything about them. What they put in their mouths is their business. And if they want to call themselves vegetarians it doesn't affect me, so go for it.
It's good that they're saving atleast the other animals even though they eat fish. My uncle and his Japanese wife are pescetarians.
Vegetarian
Well not everyone gives up meat for moral reasons. I have a friend who doesn't eat any meat but chicken simply because beef/ham grosses her out.
dont mind them
have no problem with others choices ;-)
but obvioulsy i find it a but strange, especially when they claim to care about animal rights
and when some still call themselves vegetarian
I dont have any sort of problem with it, IMO its the people who get upset about it that sound silly.
How can you stop eating some living creatures and not the rest ?
i dunno
seems kinda fishy
I'm not a vegetarian by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think anything of them. They choose to give up some meat which I disagree with, but at least they still eat fish, which is very healthy in moderate doses.