Question Regarding Fish Vs. Meats

softncudly
softncudly Posts: 722 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm just really curious. Some people say that they don't eat meat, but still eat fish. Why is fish (or seafood) not considered meat?

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Fish is meat. There's really no debate about it. If you eat no meat but fish you aren't a vegetarian, but a pescatarian.

    I suspect the fish isn't meat thing is because fish (and various other water-based creatures) didn't (and don't) count as meat according to the Catholic Church for the purposes of abstaining from meat on various days when that was (and is) required.

    Edit: hmm, I guess various languages, including Spanish and Latin, use a different word for land-based meats and for fish and unlike English the first wouldn't include the latter. That explains it somewhat. But in English "meat" includes fish.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I've often wondered if the scientific community is as full of reports of the animal proteins found in fish causing cancer and every ailment known to man as it is other "meat"...
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  • dayspoon
    dayspoon Posts: 4
    Personal preference, health reasons
  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    they live underwater, so its out of sight, out of mind for the morally concerned pescatarians
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I'm just really curious. Some people say that they don't eat meat, but still eat fish. Why is fish (or seafood) not considered meat?
    It is to a true vegetarian or vegan.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    cows have feelings...fish don't...
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    if fish is not meat ( to me it is ) - is poultry meat? (again to me it is)
  • CCSavage88
    CCSavage88 Posts: 191
    For me personally I don't see fish or seafood as flesh, I guess it's a mind thing for me. Cow's, Pig's, Chicken come from mother's who nurture them and it's strange to me to eat them when they have family units like we do as humans, they cry in pain, they have bonds and feelings for their families.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I love red meat and pork, I'm okay with chicken, but the only fish ( not shellfish, which I love) which I can stand is FRESH wild caught salmon. As a kid, I was often served fried fish, usually something with a really strong fishy flavor like lake perch, and the stink...! To this day the smell of fried fish makes me gag. and tuna is just nasty, nasty, AND an endangered species too. My best friend as a child was Catholic, and I remember I wouldn't go to her place on Fridays because her house reeked of fried fish. She always wanted to have dinner at my house on Fridays to get away from the fish.
  • viciouslitany
    viciouslitany Posts: 187 Member
    honestly, for me?

    convenience, easy source of protein, allows me to focus on just one meat source versus several ones that I feel guilty about later. but uh.

    it's still meat, and it still makes me feel bad. just less bad.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    For me personally I don't see fish or seafood as flesh, I guess it's a mind thing for me. Cow's, Pig's, Chicken come from mother's who nurture them and it's strange to me to eat them when they have family units like we do as humans, they cry in pain, they have bonds and feelings for their families.




    Which does not bother the lion when it eats a zebra, or a wolf when it eats a deer, or me when I eat a domestic animal raised for meat... that is what they are for. That's why we domesticated them and spend a LOT of money to raise them for the table. Plus, no other protein source tastes anywhere nearly as good as meat. Top of the food chain rules.

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