People who call themselves vegetarians but still eat fish and chicken...?!
Answers: I don't understand when some fish say they eat fish and chicken, but still consider themselves vegetarians. Aren't fish and chicken living, breathing creatures? Lets hear your argument if you have one.
Right, so this is the 22nd answer and NOT one fishy person has answered.
This is always the same. You get lots of them saying "i'm a fishy-veggie" or something in other answers but when it comes to standing up to be counted, they all disappear.
We've seen this bevaviour many times over the past 18 months in this forum.
I guess they have no answer.
A vegetarian eats no merat, fish, poultry nor slaughter by-products.
Its been that way since 1847 when the vegetarian society defined the word for the Oxford, Cambrdige and Collins English dictionaries.
I heard someone call them selves a "dictionary vegetarian" to me this morning. Why should vegetarians have to do this ??
i understand where you are comming from because the meaning of vegetarian is -not to eat meat!
this is what is in the encyclopedia
""Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products""
yuh they r FAKERS! i hate it wen ppl do that coz *as a REAL veggie* wen i go 2 ppls houses they giv me chiken of fish and get offened wen i dont eat it, sayin 'well sum vegitarians eat it' arrr it just makes my life harder so plz stop kidding urselves all u frauds
I don't understand them either. If they eat fish and chicken they are not vegetarians, they just don't eat beef and pork. I think they just like being called vegetarians because they think it's cool.
There are varying degrees of being vegetarians, which I am not. But vegans don't eat anything with a face and so on and so forth.
If they eat fish and chicken, they are not vegetarians. They can say what ever they want about themselves, but that doesn't make it true.
Actually vegan is the term for people who eat only vegetables. I was at one time a lacto-ovo vegetarian, because I ate milk, cheese and eggs in addition to vegetables. There are many varieties of vegetarianism, it depends on what you like. Going vegan is a huge life decision, and sometimes it's hard to let go of meat entirely, which is why there are so many variations.
I was raised around meat eaters. But they were depression era parents. Meat was a luxury. We only ate what we caught or killed. Mostly we ate beans or greens and cornbread on weekdays. Fish Friday (If caught)maybe fried chicken on Sunday.Mostly we ate a lot of tomato/ baloney sammys or peanut butter jelly sammys with Koolaid.Folks in India eat fish and chicken but they abstain from cows for religious reasons.
It would not hurt to eat an all vegetarian diet for dinner once in a while. A big old pot of red beans and rice without the sausage would be good. My granny used to put bacon drippins in the beans. And serve that with buttermilk cornbread,some sweetmilk and Apple pie for desert. What kind of vegetarian would that make me? A plain old country bumpkin most likely. Gee I didn't even realize it till now.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Eating fish or chicken is no different from eating beef or pork. It's all dead animals, there's really no difference. Those people are NOT vegetarians and need to come to terms with that and if it's such a pressing issue for them they can eliminate ALL meat from their diet. After all it must feel kind of bad to claim you're something you're not.
Some people insist they are vegetarian and eat fish and/or chicken. They aren't vegetarian no matter what they say. They can find other people who agree with them but real vegetarians do not accept them as fellow vegetarians.
People who eat meat are not vegetarians. Plain and simple. They just want a "title" or something.
There not vegetarians. They just want the attention from people when they tell them they are "vegetarian."
Vegetarians do not eat animals. Period. And if these chicken and fish eaters expand the definition of the word "vegetarian" to include their particular dietary preferences, they are rendering it completely meaningless. I applaud any efforts in the direction of vegetarianism, but people shouldn't call themselves vegetarian if they eat dead animals; it just causes a lot of unnecessary confusion amongst the greater population.
Those people aren't vegetarians.
The more militant group(s) of vegetarians expend great amounts of energy and effort to get everyone to think their way. This has nothing to do with the moral high ground and plenty to do with control issues. They do not respect the freedom of others to make their own nutritional choices. I eat meat, all kinds because I like it. I don't feel pity for the pig, steer, chicken or lamb just like the Great White Shark and moray eel don't pity the person they bite into. In most parts of the world certain animals are grown for food. And in some parts of the world meat is the only option (think far north-for example). Are those folks immoral because they eat meat? No! But they don't exhibit hypocrisy in their views.
The way I see it is this. If you crave a burger so strongly that you will eat a veggie burger, then maybe you AREN'T truly a vegetarian.
There are different versions of vegetarianism. Semi-vegetarians generally avoid only red meat.
they are not vegetarian. i dont get it either.
I agree with Phoenomagus; militant vegetarians often have no tolerance for the flexibility of the human diet and social dietary choices. I would no sooner tell someone what they can and cannot call themselves than I would tell someone how they can or cannot worship (not that we do not have plenty people who do that, too).
Personally I do not consider bird a vegetarian food but sea food is a very arguable point. Different people draw the line at different points, and the term "vegetarian" in common usage has come to be a by-word for "I have a special diet, please do not assume to choose my meal".
Some vegetarians consider milk, eggs, and honey acceptable, others consider only organic, free range eggs acceptable, and still others consider the production of milk, eggs, and honey just as bad as meat.
Many refuse to have any leather including in uniforms for school. Others are more pragmatic and say it is the meat-eater’s fault the animal died but the leather is just a side product.
Some vegans are so strict that they will not drink beer because microbes (yeast) were killed in the making of it; then again so think that is taking it too far.
Some vegetarians are so militant that they consider all non-vegans "fakers" even if they do not eat chicken or fish.
We are privileged to live in a time and world where we have such variety and knowledge of diet. We can choose a balanced diet of meat free products and truly try to be meat free if we choose, but that does not give us the right to come down on someone else who, for all we know is doing their current best to avoid eating dead mammal.
BTW: Many militant vegetarians are aware of but are totally intolerant of the fact that the Anglican Church (Protestant) and the Muslim religion both do not consider fish as a meat. In fact both of those wide spread populations have it on the authority from their god that seafood is not an animal (nor a plant but in the category of "something different").
ADD: Is a starchetarian truly a vegetarian? Grains may not be animals, but neither are they “vegetables”. I have known plenty of vegetarians that did not like vegetables (LOL).
I know you guys have pretty strict rules about who can join your veggie cult but come on if they want to call themselves vegetarian why do you care what they eat, you eat what you want and let them eat what they want.
well, they're not vegetarian. They label themselves as vegetarian to feel better about themselves and show off their "title"; people just like to pretend. sad but true.
i dont get it either. i guess suddenly fish are not living things to them. that would mean they are hypocrites.
Types of Vegetarianism
There are several different types of diets that a person calling themselves "vegetarian" may follow. Many vegetarians only consider the first four diets to be truly vegetarian.
Fruitarian: Eats only the fruits and seeds of a plant, the parts "that were meant to be eaten."
Vegan: Eats only plants and plant products. Vegans may or may not eat honey or yeast.
Lacto vegetarian: Eats plants and dairy products. Anything that does not require the killing of animals or their embryos. Mahatma Gandhi was this type of vegetarian.
Ovo-lacto vegetarian: Eats plants, dairy products, and eggs. Eating eggs is generally not considered killing animals. Common in the US.
Pesco "vegetarian": Eats plants, dairy products, eggs, and seafood. This is what I am. :)
Pollo "vegetarian": Eats plants, dairy products, eggs, seafood, and poultry. These people refrain from red meats mainly for health reasons. They may or may not call themselves vegetarians.
People eat and exclude various meats for various reasons. Not every vegitarian is a vegitarian for animal rights issues. some just dont like the taist of certain meats or perhaps are allergic. Maybe some just don't want to for no reason. Also, after many years, you lose the ability to digest meats. I was a vegitarian for 12 years, i didnt eat any fish, chicken, beef or pork. I cant eat any beef now. I get physically ill but I have started eating fish and chicken. I still dont like pork so i dont eat it. Its all about personal choice.
There could be medical and health reasons why vegitarians eat chicken and fish as well. Fish is a very healthy food and its great for your body and brain. When living on only fruits veggies and breads its hard to get the protene you need to keep your body healthy. incorporating fish and chicken helps keep you healthy. pork and beaf isnt a healthy meat for your body.
Fish and chickens are living beings, but being each vegitarian has their own reason for not eating meat and for what meats they do eat.