If you eat fish but not meat, are you considered a vegterian??

Answer 1

Honestly, this is up to you. Some places on the Internet will say that you are a pescitarian, others will say your a vegetarian. It also depends on your views of why you're a vegetarian. Is it because of moral or health reasons? Alot of people go vegetarian because of animal rights issues, but I haven't heard of issues with fish farms. Not saying there aren't bad fish farms...I just don't know.

Answer 2

I know a lot of people who would think so. I tend to say no. Technically, you are a pescetarian/pescotarian. Fish, while culinarily not meat, biologically is. It's analagous to tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, etc. While we eat them as vegetables, they are actually fruits.

Vegetarians come in varying degrees, the common factor being that they limit or eliminate foods that are made from animal parts. For vegans, the restrictions go all the way up to animal products as well.

Short answer: eat what you want and call yourself what you want. The technical answer is that you are a pescetarian or pescotarian. (That is, you eat fish but no other animals.)

I've been vegetarian to varying degrees on and off for ten years. I generally tell people that I'm a vegetarian because that's the easiest way to make sure that any and all restrictions I may have in place at the time are covered.

Answer 3

This is getting really, really old.

NO! If you eat fish, you are NOT a vegetarian. Fish is meat. It is the flesh of an animal, and vegetarians do NOT eat the flesh of an animal. And, yes, fish are ANIMALS.

There is no such thing as pesco-vegetarian. There is no such thing as pesco-pollo vegetarian. How many other prefixes will people put on these words to dilute the meaning of vegetarian? Dear Gaia, it really irritates me.

You are someone who eats no meat but fish. If you are desperate for a label, I suppose flexitarian would do. It beats erroneously calling yourself a vegetarian.

Answer 4

The only people who call that vegetarian are other people who eat only fish or people who eat meat. Real vegetarians don't eat animals and they would consider a person who eats fish to be a vegetarian (because fish are animals).

I became vegetarian because I didn't like the idea of killing animals and eating them. I hate when some people eat fish or chicken and call themselves vegetarian. It's confusing and ridiculous. Go ahead and give me "bad answer" you fish eater, you.

Answer 5

No because fish is still a meat and an animal so you would just be considered a person who doesn't eat red or white or dark meats just fish. Some people do consider this though but either way we are still omnivores.

Answer 6

No you are not a vegetarian, as they do not eat meat of any kind. There are only two types of vegetarian, all the others are made up terms. Some people eat fish and call themselves vegetarian, but they are mistaken. You can call yourself anything you want, but it does not mean it is true.

Answer 7

other person was right- pescetarian

I would not consider that person vegetarian. I do not consider eggs, chicken, or any flesh vegetarian either.

considering the state of the oceans right now and that we will likely suffer severe collapse of fish populations in oceans worldwide by 2050, I would argue that fish is actually environmentally worse than some meats - since a lot of it comes straight out of an ecosystem, the ocean.

diet and animal rights issues are another question.

Answer 8

Fish is meat. Fish are animals, and their flesh is just as much meat as a steak or a pork chop.

Answer 9

No. I believe that because fish is an animal, it counts as meats. You are eating animal if you eat fish.

Answer 10

No. Vegetarian means strictly vegetables. Fish counts as meat in some ways. Mostly in the way that fish are not vegetables.

Answer 11

Fish IS meat.