is fish a meat?

Answer 1

Why Fish is Meat:
Well, if fish isn't meat, then exactly what is it? Is it a PLANT? Because it doesn't seem to be a plant to me. And it isn't a kind of fungus, or mushroom, or lichen, or bacteria, or any of that sort of stuff. No. It is an animal. Fish is an animal. Now, read if you will the definition of animal...

Animal: 1. A sentient living organism typically capable of voluntary motion and sensation: distinguised from plant.

Now, that certainly includes fish, doesn't it. Now, with that fact in mind, read the definition of meat...

Meat: 1. The flesh of animals used as food, esp. the flesh of mammals as opposed to fish or fowl. 2. The edible part of anything. 3. Anything eaten for nourishment, as in meat and drink.

Okay. Well, except for the part of it that says "esp. the flesh of mammals as opposed to fish or foul," (see below) that pretty much sums it up. Fish is meat, yessiree. It fits definitions 2 and 3 perfectly.

Now about number 1. That part was forced into the dictionary by a group of people I have come to call "The Fish/Meat Conspirators." They are trying to confuse the entire world by telling us that fish is fish. Well beef is beef. But beef is still meat, isn't it??? I don't think there is really much purpose to what they are doing. I think that they just got bored one day and said to themselves, let's start a conspiracy. So they did. They phoned every single dictionary in the world and made them do 2 things by threatening to invent a lot of new words to make the people who work there actually have to do something. That's how the word "Antidisestablishmentarianism" came about. But all these new words eventually got to be too much of a hassle, so they changed the definitions of "meat" and "fish".

So that is why it says "esp. the flesh of mammals as opposed to fish or foul". But it says "esp." which means especially. It doesn't say that fish and foul aren't included. It just means that it is ESPECIALLY the flesh of a mammal. It does NOT say ONLY the flesh of mammals. Get my point here? The makers of the dictionary were nice enough to leave that little clause in. Say thank you to the makers of your dictionary. (BTW, there are also Foul/Meat Conspirators, which explains the foul part in case you were wondering. Perhaps one of you will accept the task of making a webpage for this worthy cause. And also the Nut/Meat Conspirators, who would have us think that nuts ARE meat, is in need of a webpage. E-Mail me at [e-mail] if you do, so I can link it to this page).

Okay. I said they also changed the definition of fish. Well, here it is.

Fish: 1. A vertebrate, cold-blooded aquatic animal [told ya it was an animal] with permanent gills having a typically elongate, tapering body, usu. covered with scales and provided with fins for locomotion 2. Loosely, any animal habitually living in water. 3. The flesh of fish used as food .

Well. Wasn't number 3 nice of them? But I don't disagree with this fact. See, let us momentarily use the word fishmeat instead of fish, definition number 3. I will use the word fish only to mean fish, as it is defined by definition number 1.


Beef: the flesh of a cow used as food.
Pork: the flesh of a pig used as food.
Venison: the flesh of a deer used as food.
Fishmeat: the flesh of a fish used as meat.

Answer 2

Meat is the flesh of an animal, so you must first ask yourself is a fish an animal a vegetable or a mineral. Once you have resolved this puzzlingly difficult question you can then answer your own question with the only plausible answer there is.

The only reason you may have doubts that fish is meat may stem from the fact that some vegetarians actually eat fish and no other meats. The truth is that they are not vegetarians but rather selective eaters.

Answer 3

Well, we've managed to go a few days without someone saying Veggies eat fish but unfortunately one of your Answerers managed to sneak it in.

Fish is meat by formal definition:
noun: 1. the flesh of animals as used for food

I know your question doesn't talk about veggie but a lot of people have leapt to the assumption you are talking in the veggie context.

Veggies don't eat meat, inc fish and poultry.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is just ignoring the formal definition of words and making up there own meanngs. Where would we be if we all did that ?

Answer 4

Meat is the muscles and skin of MAMMALS.
Their is no such thing as fish meat or chicken meat as they are not mammals like cows and goats.
But this doesn't mean that fish is vegetarian. Anything that has a face and is an animal is non vegetarian when eaten.
Hope that helps :-)

Answer 5

Meat, in its broadest modern definition, is all animal tissue used as food. In this context, it not only refers to muscle tissue, but also includes fat or non-muscle organs, including lungs, livers, tongues, skin, brains, marrow, and kidneys. Eggs of animals are consumed also. Animals that consume only meat are carnivores. Animals that consume a variety of foods including meat, are omnivores. Most humans fall into the later category.

Within the human diet, meat has a more specific meaning. For the most part, it is the flesh, or soft tissue, of any animal, consisting especially of the skeletal muscle and fat covering the skeleton. However, the word meat is typically used in reference to the flesh of livestock (chickens, pigs, cows, etc.) raised and butchered for human consumption, often to the exclusion of seafood, fish, poultry, game, and insects, although this use may be considered a semantic error when people really intend to identify "red meat" items incorrectly. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, mollusks, crustaceans, birds, and insects are all considered part of the animal kingdom.

Answer 6

Yes a fish is a meat, as pork is to meat, and meat of beef its a standard usage for all living things killed ' you're a dead meat"

Answer 7

My old boss (who was veggie) used to say that meat was anything with eyes or a mother, so under his definition yes fish is meat.

Answer 8

Fish was not considered to be meat in ancient times because they were not seen to mate as mammals do, and were therefore thought to be plants. That is why strict vegetarians would eat them.
If you define meat as muscle tissue, then fish will be classed as meat - hence modern "vegans".

Answer 9

Yes, fish is a meat: it is the flesh/muscles of an animal.

Answer 10

yes,I think fish is a meat

Answer 11

Is the Pope a Catholic?
If oyu don't eat meat because you are against killlig animals, how on earth could you advocate killing a fish?