If not, how would you classify it without having to list everything?
2007-10-16 17:30:23 · 34 answers · asked by Sweet Tea 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
YES. some vegetarians eat fish. Some even drink milk or eat eggs and cheese. (Lacto/ ovo etc). Vegans are the ones that don't eat any animal product of any kind.
I'm vegetarian. I don't eat any meat or fish, of any kind; or eggs; and try not to eat things made with gelatin, or chicken and beef stock. But i do eat cheese! (and yogurt!) And sometimes i drink regular milk! (skim or 1%) but i love soy milk.
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2007-10-16 17:35:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 16⤋
No, you are not a vegetarian.
You are a person of normal diet who restricts thier meat intact to fish
You could use the term pecsitarian if you really feel the need for a label but its not a real dictionary defined word so don't be suprised if you cause confusion or have to explain it to almost everyone you meet.
I'm not sure where "purnimacresent" gets the idea that fish not being suitable for vegetarians is new or a recent change.
Its been that way since the word vegetarian was first defined in 1847:
http://www.vegsoc.org/fish/
2007-10-16 20:57:19 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
No you're not a vegetarian. A lot of people don't think that fish are as 'cute' as other animals but they live and feel pain just like the rest of us do. A vegetarian doesn't eat the flesh or parts of any animal so you are not therefore a vegetarian.
2007-10-17 00:55:20 · answer #3 · answered by jenny84 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Fish are animals and you cannot eat animal meat and be vegetarian. Pescatarian is the accurate term, but if you tell people that they're going to look at you with a "Huh"? expression.
If you want the title :) give up the fish. The mercury is bad for you anyway... not to mention the oceans are seriously and dangerously depleted.
There are ovo-lacto vegetarians (eggs and milk)
lacto vegetarians (milk but no eggs)
and vegans (no animal products)
2007-10-17 05:37:14 · answer #4 · answered by Krista 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are not a vegetarian. How you explain it is up to you, but please don't confuse the issue by calling yourself something that you're not. "Pescetarian" and "piscivore" are words used for people who eat fish only; some people criticize their use because they are "made up" words, but ALL words start out that way ("vegetarian" itself is a fairly new word, having been coined in 1842 and adopted by the vegetarian society in 1847.) I'm OK with their use, but not with the use of "pesco-vegetarian" or any other configuration that includes the term "vegetarian."
2007-10-17 03:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by mockingbird 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are not a vegetarian. Please have some respect for real vegetarians and don't call yourself one. Thanks.
The guy who says the majority of Hindu vegetarians eat fish is incorrect. My wife is Hindu, I personally know hundreds of Hindu vegetarians, none of them eat fish, and fish and eggs are always classified as "non-veg" in Indian restaurants. The thing about fish being a vegetarian food was invented by people from the West.
2007-10-16 19:18:05 · answer #6 · answered by majnun99 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
No, vegetarian guidelines now added that fish is not considered a food group for vegetarians. Vegetarians also quit fish now because of knowledge of high mercury content in the foods.
Remember, poultry and fish IS a type of meat-if it was alive it is not for vegetarians to eat..As the other poster stated, vegetarians can get pretty annoyed at ppl caling themselves something they are not-only b.c they work extremely hard to eat what they are supposed to, and ppl who eat meat and lable themselves the same name takes away from the point...if you get what i mean.
Like someone who studie dto be a doctor vs someone who is watching doctor movies- both calling themselves doctors-one will be pretty peed...
so rid of th efish, and u have yourself a lable.
2007-10-16 17:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No. There are people who say they are vegetarian who eat only fish or chicken, but fish and chicken are animals. Vegetarian means eating only plant based foods. Some people eat dairy, but no meat and consider themselves vegetarian. A true vegetarian (vegan), however does not eat foods that are made from another species' mammary glands. Cows milk is meant to feed baby cows - (calfs).
I started out just like you, but slowly cutting out animals from my diet and now I am very happily vegan. I sleep so much better at night, knowing I don't have to kill animals in order to eat.
2007-10-16 17:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Not another one of these questions again. Sorry....okay...
Congrats on not eating anything but fish...but fish is meat...and you are not a vegetarian. Just say the only meat you eat is fish.. No one would know what you are talking about anyway if you say pescitarain..(I don't use that word so I don't know how to spell it..I think it's made up to be honest)...so you'd have to explain it either way it goes. Either give up fish too or tell them you don't eat any kind of meat except fish. That's not hard to say.
2007-10-16 17:53:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Why would you even ask this questions as fish is a living breathing creature capable of feeling pain and you eat it!!!! So no you are not a vegetarian.
2007-10-17 03:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by Harriett M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fish are getting over fished anyways so that's the only reason I would tell a person to stop eating them besides the face that it was a living animal.
2007-10-16 18:50:59 · answer #11 · answered by :) 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋