If you don't eat animals other then fish are you still a vegiterian or is eating fish aggainsed the rules???

Question

please answer no jokes please!!!

Answer 1

Hello,
If you only ate fish, there is a new word popping up in the last couple years of pescavore, piscatarian, pescatarian... whathave you.

But if you choose to use such a name, it is still not a type of vegetarian. Certain groups may have chosen to lump it into vegetarianism because they cannot understand people who don't eat steak, but those are not the people who know anything.

All credible vegetarian societies, since vegetarianism began and had a name, understand that a vegetarian eats no animals, be they fish, bird, swine or cow.

Some people have tried to get around this as of late by saying fish isn't meat, but the point is, fish is animal, and vegetarians do not, under any circumstances, eat animals.

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You may wonder why this matters. People say that labels don't, matter, or *I don't need a label* or *I don't care about labels.* Well if you don't need them, and don't care about them, then please, do not misuse them or take those that don't belong to you.

The whole point of having a label within society is not so *people can belong, * but it is so that people can turn many words into one word.

I should be able to go anywhere in the world, say "vegetarian" (in respective languages,) and it should be understood that I want no dead animals in my food. Now, thanks to them, I could have a dead-carcass put on my plate.

Those who eat fish may not understand how greatly we believe in not eating the carcasses of dead animals, so they may not realize it is a big deal that they put us in those situations. But they should trust that it does matter, and that we do care.

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I believe in the lifestyle I have chosen, and I have worked very hard to make this my way of life.

The fish-eaters are ruining and tainting the very word. The label is not so important when you eat dead animals because most any restaurant has food that quite obviously is edible for fish-eaters. There is no need for a label. Just order fish. There is no need to explain your diet because no one questions why one is eating fish. It is normal within our society to eat dead animals so they are not going to stick out.

Many fish-eaters call themselves vegetarians simply because they are misinformed. There are a lot of bunk websites out there. Others do it because *people wont understand what pescatarian means.* Well many people didn't understand what vegetarian meant when it first came out. It took many vegetarians to make that happen. NOW, people are again starting to not know what vegetarian means.
It means, "one who believes in vegetables/vegetation."

Now, many think it means,
" one who believes in vegetables as a side-dish to big dead fish, or perhaps even other animals if you happen to feel like it that day."

I know this is a lot more information than you asked for, but this might help you interpret all the *yes you can* and *no you can't* answers.

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Answer 2

(copied and pasted from another answer of mine)

being a vegetarian is about the way animals are treated and if fisherman treat animals wrong then people who eat the fish therefore are not vegetarians

unless however they are vegetarians for spiritual reasons and what not however i still feel thay are not vegis because fish in my book are equal to everything else


Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed

Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch

Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation

Answer 3

If you eat fish and seafood, but no meat, you would be pescatarian. As for the rules? Screw them. Its YOUR diet, eat what you want. I enjoy seafood on special occasions, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, and enjoy vegetarian delights the rest of the time. I don't worry about "rules". Its not like the veggie police are out there issuing summonses for violations....we have YA for that, lol

Answer 4

No fish are animals too. there aren't rules - you eat what you feel is right for you - but you are not what is generally classifeied as a vegetarian.

Answer 5

There are several different levels, not all of which are vegetarian, obviously. If you eat fish, but no other meat, you would be referred to as a pescatarian.

Answer 6

Well, there is a type of vegetarianism called pesco-vegetarianism, which is when you eat fish but no other meat. Many people do this because fish are not killed in slaughterhouses.
P.S. The only veggie rule is 'thou shalt not eat meat', vegetarianism is a personal thing...you make up your own idea of it.

Answer 7

Vegetarians don't eat flesh. Eating fish is eating flesh. Hope this helps!

Answer 8

They have at least three basic of different type of vegetarian. The vegans don't eat any foods of animal origin. Others vegetarian eat some animal food as eggs,milk or cheese, they are called ovo-lacto vegetarian,and people that eat fish or poultry. This quote came from a book that I read when I toked nutrition. A diet for people who don't eat meat, but do eat fish and poultry or just fish. Fairness dictates that many strict vegetarians don't consider people who eat fish or poultry to be vegetarians.But also the book consider people that eat only fish or poultry, a variation of vegetarianism.
I hope that helps you.

Answer 9

Never, you're not a veg girl....if you want to eat fish go on but you're not a veg for sure.
Hope i helped you.

Answer 10

You're not a vegetarian, you're a piscaterian. It's OK.
You make the rules about your diet. If you like fish, eat fish.