Is fish a meat?

Question

I am a vegitarian, but I heard that 'fish is a muscle, not a meat' I have been eating fish occasionally but not, like, every day. I need good long answers!

Answer 1

Fish is a meat if you consider the flesh of an animal to be meat. It really is just semantic when you start weighing muscle versus fat, etc. The real issue is whether fish is okay for you to eat based on your reasons for being vegetarian. Many people that call themselves vegetarians regularly consume fish and other seafood, but many abstain from all animal products including dairy and eggs. Incidentally, if you are a true vegan, you need to take a B vitamin supplement as these are only available from animal sources. Good luck.

Answer 2

Fish is considered meat...and it's not a muscle!

Anyone that claims to be vegetarian, but eats fish is not a vegetarian. True vegetarians do not eat animals of any kind...including fish and other forms of seafood.

When consuming fish, you are eating something that used to be alive, that had a mother and a father. That's why I don't eat seafood.

Fish feel pain just like we do. Just because a fish can't vocalize its pain doesn't mean they don't feel anything.

Answer 3

In fact fish is considered as white meat. By the way the red meat is also a muscle.

Answer 4

Yes, the animal was alive, then eating it is eating meat.
I am in the same 'boat' as you, having given up other types of meat, but still eating occasional seafood. There isn't a term for this type person, but we are not 'true' vegitarians.
All 'meat' is muscle, unless you are eating another organ such as liver.

Answer 5

A fish is a living breathing creature.
It is not a plant. It does not grow from the ground.
Fish is meat. Vegetarians do not eat meat.

Answer 6

If the food source comes from an animal it is considered a meat. I don't understand why people refuse to go and eat a hamburger because it was cute lil cow at one time but will deplete the oceans of fish and then somehow justfy that. Either your going to eat animals or your not going to eat animals.

Answer 7

I'm accurate in telling you that you are not a vegetarian. you are a meateater who restricts thier meat intake to fish.

Its as simple as that.

Vegetarians don't eat fish. Ever

when will all these fish eaters learn ?

check out dictionaries, check out the world authorities on vegetarinism - www.vegsoc.org.uk, www.ivu.org.
Even check out the Wikipedia link above if you like. At the end of the first paragraph it says fish eaters are not vegetarians.

I get the impression they would still say they were vegetarians if everyone else ( all 6 Billion of us ) said they were wrong. none of them ever say "oh, i didn't know i was wrong, thanks i'll correct myself from now on"

Are vegetarians so great that you are willing to lie and be dishonest with yourselves and other just to try to be in our group ?

And don't even start me on the veggies eat chicken discussion....

Answer 8

I suspect that whoever told you that fish is just muscle was referring to (or misunderstood a reference to) oysters and mussels and suchlike. But regardless, a muscle is a part of a creature. And a part of a creature is meat.

Some easy rules of thumb:
If it had a face, it's meat.
If it had a mother, it's meat.
If it had blood, it's meat.
If it had a central nervous system, it's meat.

So yes, fish is meat.

Answer 9

Yes, as a rule any organic that produces blood in it's system is a meat any that produce other liquid are plants and appropriate for strict vegan lifestyle. If you are vegetarian fish is not on the approved diet but if you like it there is no law that says you can't enjoy it from time to time. Good Luck!

Answer 10

You are not a vegetarian if you eat fish. A fish is an animal. A fish breathes, sees, bleeds and feels pain.