What type of veg am I?

Question

I eat eggs, drink milk, and eat fish. What is that called?

Answer 1

You are a piscivore.

Because everybody needs a label --- your handy-dandy complete list of labels.


VEGETARIAN (Lacto-ovo- vegetarian) (sometimes also referred to as herbivore)
When most people think of vegetarians, they think of lacto-ovo-vegetarians. People who do not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but do eat eggs and dairy products are lacto-ovo vegetarians (“lacto” comes from the Latin for milk, and “ovo” for egg).
Lacto-vegetarian is used to describe a vegetarian who does not eat eggs, but does eat dairy products.
Ovo-vegetarian refers to people who do not eat meat or dairy products but do eat eggs.

VEGAN
Vegans do not eat meat of any kind and also do not eat eggs, dairy products, or processed foods containing these or other animal-derived ingredients such as gelatin. Many vegans also refrain from eating foods that are made using animal products that may not contain animal products in the finished process, such as sugar and some wines. There is some debate as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegan diet.


FRUITARIANS –
They eat only fruits, nuts and seeds.(This includes the fruit of vegetables such as tomatoes and courgettes. However they never eat the roots of plants such as carrots and potatoes)

PISCIVORE –
The word piscivore is used to describe those who abstain from eating all meat and animal flesh with the exception of fish. Although the word is not commonly used, more and more people are adopting this kind of diet, usually for health reasons or as a stepping stone to a fully vegetarian diet. Pescatarian is occasionally used but is incorrect.

POULTRYIVORE –
Eats chicken and turkey, but does not eat mammals.

FLEXITARIAN/SEMI-VEGETARIAN
You don’t have to be vegetarian to love vegetarian food! “Flexitarian” is a term recently coined to describe those who eat a mostly vegetarian diet, but occasionally eat meat.

RAW VEGAN/RAW FOOD DIET
A raw vegan diet consists of unprocessed vegan foods that have not been heated above 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius). “Raw foodists” believe that foods cooked above this temperature have lost a significant amount of their nutritional value and are harmful to the body.

MACROBIOTIC
The macrobiotic diet, revered by some for its healthy and healing qualities, includes unprocessed vegan foods, such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and allows the occasional consumption of fish. Sugar and refined oils are avoided. Perhaps the most unique qualifier of the macrobiotic diet is its emphasis on the consumption of Asian vegetables, such as daikon, and sea vegetables, such as seaweed.

OMNIVORE –
Eats both animal and plant matter.

CARNIVORE
Only eats meat.

LANDIVORE
Eats meat, but does not eat seafood or fish.
SUSHIVORE
Eats fish but only uncooked.

BEEFEATER –
Guards the Tower of London.

SNACKATARIAN –
Will not eat snacks made in the image of animals. Chocolate Easter eggs, animal crackers, goldfish crackers, gummy bears, or swedish fish.

OVO-SNACKATARIAN
Will not eat animal crackers, goldfish crackers, gummy bears or swedish fish, but WILL eat Chocolate Easter eggs.

PESCASNACKATARIAN
Will eat goldfish crackers and swedish fish but will not eat gummy bears and animal crackers.

Answer 2

Fish belong to the animal kingdom (I'm not making this up, check a Bio 101 textbook.) Vegetarians do not eat animals (I'm not making this up either.) You are a not a vegetarian. Note that this does not make you "less" in some way, but the word has a defintion and it does not include some animals while excluding others.

Answer 3

You can call yourself a pescetarian or piscavore if that makes you happy. Some doctors call this type of diet (though I'm not sure they'd be too crazy about the eggs) a Mediterranean diet and prescribe it for heart health.

"Me" - you made my day with that post.

"Abby" - I didn't know vegans couldn't eat diary products! I guess I have to quit snacking on my journal. Darn.

Answer 4

Sorry but vegetarians do not eat animals. Here is a great, credible website that helps to explain vegetarianism
http://www.vegsoc.org/newveg/fft/basics.html

"VEGETARIANS – THE BASICS

Vegetarians don’t eat:
• Meat
• Poultry
• Game
• Fish, shellfish and crustacea
• Slaughterhouse by-products such as gelatine, rennet and animal fats.

People who don’t eat red meat but do eat chicken or fish are making a very important first step, but they aren’t vegetarians. We usually call such people meat-reducers.

People who avoid all animal products, including eggs, milk, dairy products and honey as well as meat, poultry and fish are called vegans.

This is the dictionary definition since vegetarianism had a name.

In short, your *name* would be "meat reducer."

Answer 5

An omnivore. It's not any type of vegetarian. Vegetarians do not eat fish.

Answer 6

A meat eater. Both vegetarians and vegans do not eat meat of any kind including fish.

Answer 7

You're not a vegetarian at all. Vegetarians do NOT eat any animal flesh whatsoever, and if I remember my biology classes correctly, fish are animals.

Pescatarian is a made-up word to describe people who eat no meat other than fish. Meat-reducer or flexitarian is used to describe people who eat less meat than before or than the Standard American Diet.

Answer 8

You are a Lacto-ovo-pescetarian or a Lacto-ovo-pescevegetarian or a Lacto-ovo-pescevegan.
You choose what you want to be called in this part of the diet spectrum, Lacto mean you drink dairy products and eat dairy products ovo means you eat eggs and pesce means you eat seafood.

Answer 9

You can call yourself whatever you like. I would say you are piscivore/pescatarian, flexitarian/meat-reducer, and omnivore. But by standard definition you aren't vegetarian if you eat any meat (yup, fish is meat, too).

Answer 10

I am the same as you, I don't call myself a vegetarian but if someone asks why i won't eat meat (other than fish) i just say i'm vegetarian so they understand. I guess that technically we are piscivores.

Answer 11

If you want to be technical, you could pass for a lacto-ovo-pescevegetarian (or lacto-ovo-pescetarian, both are the same). Lacto means you eat milk, ovo means you eat eggs, and pesce means you eat fish. I believe these are made-up terms in order to make a personal feel better that they are a vegetarian, when they are really not. But hey, that's just me.

Personally, I believe this is not a form a vegetarianism at all. Vegetarians eat absolutely NO animal flesh, and fish are animals too. Cut you the fish and you could be vegetarian, cut out the milk and eggs and you would be vegan.