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First of, please please please please please don't listen to those people at the top. They have NO idea what they are talking about! (The line of people who know what they are talking about starts at Fly.)
I wrote this generally about fish, but you can add chicken to the concept.
And to "little miss:" VEGETARIANS DON'T EAT ANIMALS, regardless of what silly terms we have come up with for "meat" and "not meat." We do not eat flesh, and fish sure have flesh. Please stop tainting others with your lack of knowledge on a topic.
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There is so much misinformation going around now about vegetarians eating dead animals. This information is coming from bunk websites, written by people who have no idea what they are talking about. This misinformation is causing a lot of problems for actual vegetarians. If the only dead animal you eat is fish, there is apparently a new word popping up in the last couple years of pescavore, piscatarian, pescatarian... whathave you.
I personally do not see the need for a name if you are a person who eats an omnivorious diet, but hey, if it makes you feel good.
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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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WHY IT MATTERS:
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."
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So please do not let your friend's mom refer to herself as ANY kind of vegetarian. Being a vegetarian who eats dead animals would be like being a Christian who believes in multiple gods and isn't all that fond of Jesus.
Thank you
2007-03-02 12:31:42
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answered by Squirtle 6
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Anyone who eats anything that once lived is NOT a vegetarian. It doesn't matter what fancy names they like to call themselves to try to make them feel better - sorry but they AREN'T a vegetarian. It;s unfair to the proper vegetarians that meat eaters are sticking veggie labels on their meat eating habits left right and centre.
2007-03-03 05:57:07
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answered by Anonymous
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there is no such element as non-existence, via definition. The time period is used merely compared to existence, even though it skill no longer something via itself. Our expertise survives demise, merely because it preceded beginning. the reason we are able to not understand non-existence is that there is no such element, merely as there is no such element as unconsciousness. no longer remembering a era of expertise does no longer advise that we were no longer conscious on the time. we are continually conscious faster or later.
2016-11-27 00:55:49
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answered by ? 4
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actually your friends mom isn't a vegetarian. there's no such thing as pollo-vegetarian. vegetarians don't eat ANY animals, and it doesn't matter what species the animal is.
2007-03-02 10:49:19
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answered by Anonymous
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We need to shift the perspective - people are vegetarian for many different reasons. For me, anyone who consumes less animal is doing a good thing. I am vegetarian but if someone eliminates all animals from their diet except poultry, and feels better about themselves by naming themselves something, go for it!! The goal is to consume fewer animals, not to have a "purity of name" or something for vegetarians!!
2007-03-03 01:23:19
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answered by ash 7
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i dint think there is anything like that. Either you have not eat it all of them. But in the Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkotha) some vegetarians if not all eat fish cuz it doesn't make sound. Many Indian veggies eat eggs.
Vegetarians mean feed on veggie stuff if you eat poultry then its something else.
I do like to be a Vegetarian but man chicken tastes so good.:)
2007-03-02 10:42:36
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answered by Xtrax 4
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Nope, no such animal. She is still an omnivore.
2007-03-02 14:44:01
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answered by littlevivi 5
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There are many different types of vegetarians. A vegetarian who eats eggs and cheese is called a lact-ovo vegetarian. A vegetarian who eats poultry would be pollo vegetarian I guess.
2007-03-02 10:42:39
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answered by Jenn S 2
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NO! Vegetarians don't eat animals!
2007-03-02 11:28:04
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answered by PsychoCola 3
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grrr why do people keep doing this, eat meat=not vegetarian
2007-03-02 18:07:11
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answered by mikedrazenhero 5
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