Do vegetarians look at land animals as a higher form of life than sea animals(seafood)?!

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Vegetarians don't eat any meat, land or sea. Pescetarians eat seafood....not vegetarians.

In spite of that, the answer is, yes, vegetarians apparently hold one life form above another. They don't mind that cute little bunny rabbits, mice, ground nesting birds, etc., die in the fields for the veggies they eat. But they object long and loud that cattle, hogs and chickens die for my diet.

Vegetarians do not eat fish.
Someone who eats fish is not a vegetarian.
They are a pescetarian - someone who does not eat the meat from land animals, but does eat fish.

I personally have never seen the difference between eating the flesh of a cow and the flesh of a fish - they're both living animals that are being killed and eaten.
I used to be vegetarian, I am now vegan.

Vegetarian doesn't have an exact definition in that sense, two of the more common is not eating anything with a face & not eating anything capable of feeling pain (ie through a C.N.S), sposedly there is debate on jellyfish about this.

Some religions have restrictions on types of meat such as pork (ie all3 abrahamic religions islam judaism christianity) some on cows (hinduism) & some on all animals but fish (rastafarianism).
As stated pescatarian is the label, but its all just labels at the end of the day.

vegetarian

I know a few people who are like that. Whenever they tell someone else they're vegetarian", I always say, "No, you're not!". Being vegetarian is not eating ANY living animal, so people who eat seafood but claim to be vegetarian are crazy.

Without getting into whether people who eat fish are vegetarians or not,
the answer to the basic question as to whether the land based life forms are more evolved than the water based,
is YES!

Vegetarians do not eat animals, period. Fish, crustaceans, sea mammals, etc. ARE animals.

I hate when people call themselves vegetarians and then eat a fish >< I am a Vegetarian and do not eat seafood. People who only eat seafood meat are called pesco-vegetarian. But I personally don't agree that they are vegetarians because I believe that fish are living beings and are just as important. Many say that they eat it because they need protein. Some people also say fish can not feel pain...I am not sure if this is true. The christian religion can not eat meat on Friday during one part of the year, but they are allowed to eat fish, this may also contribute to it. It all depends on what that person believes and what they feel comfortable eating....but I really hate when I order a vegetarian sandwich and they ask if I want fish on it : /

Hello

Possibly.

I don't know what kind of "vegetarians" you are talking to...
No meat, no animals

i dont look at them as 'higher' no
those are pescatarians not vegetarians
;-)

Dear Max

there are lots of reasons on which people base their choice of being a vegetarian. For some it is animal cruelty, but they still gorge on cheese; for some it is unquestionable right to live, but they still tolerate cruelty by some other made up arguments; and so by this reasoning ultimately one must be a vegan. But then plants are alive too. So be careful with this straight forward reasoning. You do not know what is the main argument. If you are a meat eater then check if your goal is not wrapped in ignorance (a friendly suggestion). But if you seek clarification on the matter here it is. Lets say you are given to eat a person. Would you? If yes, proceed further: would you eat a close person? Provided it was killed and you are not in a starvation mode (why these assumption is an exercise). If you said no, then would you eat a dog/cat? And what if it was your own? This is a classical example how vegetarians those who do not eat any sorts animals/insects etc reason. Their point is: if you manage to eat a cow, why not your own *relative*. You are murderer and why you see a difference between a human and a cow. So the answer is empathy; mostly population is not involved with the food, they pretty much do not care. And based on this quality of a person which is empathy most moral choices are made. So what are you trying to ask here? It is only the matter of the extension of the empathy. And morality is very much a matter of debate. Also there is enormous difference between one who thinks about such issues and the one who actually makes those choices. And of course we must not forget mutual respect because empathy firstly begins with you and me. No one can force their moral beliefs onto the other nor should people turn the bind eye on those who are pointing out an inconvenient truth.

I personally extend my empathy to all the human race and all the mammals. I do not have any milk or eggs whatsoever because of corporation-ism and all that. But I view shrimps as flowers of sea (as long as they are not bred and consumed responsibly) and only recently realized the principle of *do not harm living things* in favor of fish. But then again, life is not fair and all we all eat each other. What is the point? I am mostly against the ignorance of people, ignorance to consume meet and to gorge on sugar and milk, to vegetate in front of TV and rotate in their small lives with their messed up feelings. But then they do not know any better. And I probably as well. So lets try to live our lives being better people firstly to everyone we know. And then there is responsibility and consciousness. Hope I made my point..

There's no one answer to this. People are different.

Different people are vegetarian for different reasons. Some for moral reasons, some for health reasons, some for religious reasons, and some perhaps for other reasons again. Personally, I don't eat meat because it's dead flesh and I find the idea revolting. I don't see different life forms as more or less worthy, I just don't see them as a food source any more than I'd want to eat wood or dirt. It's not a moral issue (for me), I just think it's nasty. That's just me though, I'm perhaps in a minority here.

Everyone has their own moral code, and it's down to them to work out what is and isn't acceptable to them individually. Unfortunately, "vegetarian" is a bit of a wooly catch-all term; some 'vegetarians' simply don't eat red meat, some don't eat or use any animal-derived products at all (more correctly, we call these people "Vegans"). Most are somewhere in the middle.

You've heard that "vegetarians eat seafood" - some do, many don't. What you're describing here is a "pescetarian." I'd actually argue that the moniker "vegetarian" is inappropriate and misleading here; I've eaten in restaurants where the "vegetarian option" is a tuna bake. As far as I'm concerned, that's no more vegetarian than a ribeye steak.

Sorry if this doesn't directly answer your question. I guess what I'm trying to say is that your question makes a lot of assumptions that aren't wholly correct. Hope this helps, anyway.

Alan.