Why isn't fish meat? I never understood this. Fish are living and bleed, just like animals?!

hello

i think you are a little confused ...

vegetarians - eat no fish or any other meat of meat bassed ingredents like gelotine and rennit

vegans - no meat no fish no animnal ingredens no mlk egg or chese

pescatarians - same as a vegetarian but eats fish

@xandrrs -prime exzample of pepol in this catogory ! you can never try to help pepol and make them understannd insted you are rude arogond and i thi8nk a lot of you are out rigth snobs ! GET OVER IT ! you just dont eat met ???

if you question is why do some pepol who call them selves vegeteryans then eat fish ?

i dont thnk some one who dose not eat meat but eats fish should have another name its just another sight of how spechal veggies think they are at the end of the day they are all fightting for the same cause ! i eat fish the reson i eat fish is because they have thetr live not lived in a cage and and not treated bad i buy line caugth sustanble fish however pigs cows shreep ect are treate sooo bed !

and i call my self a vegeteryan ! i dont care what any one els thinks ! its my choice i dont kill aninals i savw them i help aninls and do more than most vegetryans so ill call my self what i like !

rant over lol this above is not amed at you its amed at the wider veggie communtie as they are rude ! thank you for the good question !

kind regards
alex

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To me, fish IS meat, because it's an animals flesh.

Vegetarians do not eat fish or meat, or anything such as gelatine that has come from an animal that has had to die to give it.

Vegans, such as myself, do not eat anything at all from an animal, so no meat, fish, eggs, milk products, honey etc etc. Veganism also extends to life outside what you eat.

A pescetarian is someone who eats fish but not other meat. They are not a vegetarian.

Fish is meat, and vegetarians don't eat it. The very definition of a vegetarian precludes eating the flesh of any animal, and fish are animals.

I believe the confusion stems from religious dietary laws. The Catholic Church does not consider fish a meat for the sake of meatless Fridays. Jewish dietary law does not consider fish a meat at all, and allows its consumption with dairy foods (while land animals may not be consumed with dairy foods).

Fish is meat, but some people like to pretend they're vegetarian even though they still eat fish, which is contradictive. People who eat animals, whether they swim, fly or walk, are not vegetarians.


Also, vegetarians and vegans both do not eat meat, but vegans abstain from all animal products such as milk and eggs.

Vegetarians do not eat any meat. I don't know how hard is to figure out that vegetarians don't eat any meat. Look up the definition on vegetarians and vegans before you say something.

EDIT: I'm sorry if I came off mean or rude; I'm just stating the fact that the whole point of being a vegetarian is to cut all dead animals out. That's what vegetarians are. : /

I'm sorry if I came off as a *****. Someone here sent me a message and said I was being rude, but I was just being honest.

ACTUALLY I understand your confusion.

I'm a vegetarian and I do not eat fish but I recognize that some "vegetarians" do eat fish.

I believe this is related to the whole no meat practice during Lent, where Catholics have been known to eat fish but not mammals or birds.

I imagine it's (often, not always) the misinterpretation of why this is a tradition that leads people to imagine that fish is not considered meat.

The true reason fish is eaten during Lent instead of meat is because Lent is supposed to be about making sacrifices. Way back when (New Testament time) meat was considered a luxury and fish was sort of poor person food. So, you give up the joy of eating meat for instead eating meager fish. Interestingly, fish is often far more expensive these days!

In Brazil and other South American countries, they eat Capybara (the worlds largest rodent, which happens to have webbed feet for water dwelling) during Lent. This is because Capybaras swim and thus are "fish." Apparently they taste a great deal like pork, so I don't think anyone is sacrificing in that instance.

As you can see, a lot of things have become lost in translation from the very very old bible and sort of been miscommunicated and held as truth.

I suppose, also, some people just imagine fish to be different than mammals and birds because they live in the water and we don't. I couldn't honestly tell you how that makes sense but I do think that might be another thought process involved. Maybe it's the health benefits of a diet rich in vegetables and lean fish?

You shouldn't feel bad for asking a question, that's sort of the point of this site.

The people you are asking about refer to themselves as "pesco-vegetarian," and there are also people who call themselves "pollo-vegetarian" (meaning they eat birds but not red meat). They are not true vegetarians, but would like to have to you believe otherwise.


So now you know =)

because the catholic church had a stake in the Italian fishing industry when Lenten fasting began. During Lent, Catholics do not eat meat on Fridays. So to make a little extra money, the church decided fish was not meat, thereby increasing the demand for fish.

Fish is meat. And vegetarians can't eat meat, vegans can't eat meat either AND they can't eat meat by-products like cheese or milk. Some people say they are vegetarians but still eat fish. They aren't vegetarians. I eat fish, but no other meat, but I'm a pescetarian - I don't eat meat except fish.

idk the answer to your original question, but for the additional details part: vegetarians don't eat any meat. vegans don't eat or use anything that came from an animal. (meat, milk, cheese, yogurt, eggs, leather, ect.)

Fish IS meat.
You're kidding right? Of course vegetarians don't eat meat, what did you think, they eat no peas?

Where is your common sense. Sorry to be so obtuse, I think using the grey matter between your ears would help you live.

im vegetarian .. i dont eat meat or fish or gelatine ..

pescatarians are vegetarians but they eat fish ..

if you dont eat meat, fish, dairy, eggs and stuff liek that, then you are vegan ..

:) xx

Fish is a meat, ask a vegetarian. Just another example of Catholicism changing factual information for a profit.

No, vegetarians can't eat fish. Ridiculous.

It's a religion thing