fish IS NOT meat?

Question

fish is not meat i am a vegetarian and i have to eat fish for protein if you think fish is NOT meat SPEAK UP

Answer 1

Fish is fish, not meat or fowl. Vegetarians can eat fish, unless you are vegan. There is a difference between fish, fowl, and meat. Meat comes from mammals, beef, pork, lamb, etc.

Answer 2

I'm sorry what is it then...MEAT. Just because it lives in the ocean doesn't mean it isn't an animal dear. Vegetarians don't eat animals of any kind or any part.

What do you think they are then? Just wondering...what do you classify them as?

I have never eaten seafood...never liked it even before I became vegetarian.

I have been a vegetarian for 7 years and have never had any problems with not getting enough protein. The only way that would be possible is if you eat a vegetable every other day and the rest off the time you eat junk food. EVERY VEGETABLE CONTAINS SOME AMOUNT OF PROTEIN. All you have to do is eat right. That's it.

Answer 3

What planet are you from? Of course fish are meat! What did you think they were? Pretty things to look at? You're not a vegetarian if you eat fish. And you can get protein from nuts, you know. Do some research.

Answer 4

Meat, as I understand it, is the flesh of an animal. A fish is an animal so fish is meat. Fish may not be considered an animal according to a medieval form of science, but according to the modern science of Biology it is an animal.

Some people use the word "meat" to mean red meat.

The true definition of vegetarian in any reliable source does not include the eating of animal life in any form. Some folks, however, eat fish and insist they are vegetarian.

A new word has been invented for people like you; pescetarian. I hope you can call yourself that instead of vegetarian. I honestly don't care what you eat, but please don't eat fish and call yourself a vegetarian.

I don't eat any kind of animals, and it's getting to where I don't even like to call myself vegetarian anymore because some people are going to assume I eat fish or chicken or something. It's confusing.

You don't have to eat animals for protein. I am married to a Registered Dietitian with a Masters Degree in Nutrition and I know that for a fact. Anyone who says otherwise is not as qualified as my wife. No Registered Dietitian will say you have to eat meat for protein and they are the only clinical nutrition experts recognized by the health care industry. Forget anyone who says there are "nutritionists" anybody can call himself a "nutritionist."

Answer 5

1. Fish is meat, just not red meat.

2. You do not HAVE to eat fish, this is your choice. If you WANT to eat them, do it, but don't be in denial about your choices. If you are ashamed of your eating habits, fix them.

3. You are not a vegetarian, you are a piscivore.

4. You can get protein from plenty of other plant based foods (beans, peanut butter, etc.) and from non-lethal animal sources (milk, eggs, cheese, etc.) if you are a vegetarian.

Answer 6

Fish IS meat. You are not a vegetarian if you eat fish. A fish had a life and you ended it. It felt pain as it suffocated on top of a ship or was boiled alive. It is an animal, it's flesh is meat. There are NO government regulations conrtolling the treatment of fish and almost 50 die swimming in their own feces before they are slaughtered. They die more slow tortous deaths than other livestock, they are frozen, have their gils slit, suffocated or even BEATEN to death. If Tyson, say, killed their chicken in this matter they'd be shut down. If your eating meat you're eating dead, tortured flesh. This applies to fish too.

Answer 7

fish is meat... a hemoglobin-rich fluid nourishes it during life.


All the blah-blah about This religion or That calling it other than meat is simple dogma. The idea of fish on Friday is to
impart a sense of deprivation or sacrifice on the part of the parishioner.

there are millions of people who seem to survive on rice and beans - no animal protein at all; so to say that you're a vegetarian is self-delusion.

I may admire your restraint, but I won't emulate it - I eat meat.

Answer 8

Fish is meat
it is a living animal that gets killed for its meat
for protein you just need a handful of nuts to get the same amount of protein as meat does
and there are meat subsitutes and tofu is a protein source

Answer 9

Because of religious strictures saying Catholics can eat meat on Fridays and Jews can eat fish with dairy (while they can't eat other meat products with milk), people somehow think fish isn't meat. Sorry, it's animal flesh, so people who eat fish and other sea creatures are NOT vegetarian.

Answer 10

Fish is meat. But you don't have to eat fish in order to get protein. I've been vegan and an athlete for 12 years and never had a problem with protein.
Aside from soy products you can get plenty of protein in your diet via nuts or beans.

Answer 11

Well its certainly not a plant!

Fish is an animal. You are not vegetarian if you eat fish. You can get protein from other sources.