My friend is a vegetarian and she still eats fish, saying that fish is not meat. Is it meat?

Question

is is right for her to call herself a vegetarian? is she being a hipocrit?

Answer 1

She is a pescetarian.

http://pescetarianlife.com

Answer 2

She is a pescetarian or pesco-vegetarian. I was raised a pescetarian also but my mother called it vegetarian because she states it wasn't meat. She claimed that is wasn't because in the old testament of the bible it is not considered meat. I was not going to argue with her or look to find out if the information was true or false (I believe it's false).

I find out the beginning of this year when I made the change to be a vegan that I was a pescetarian from a friend when I was explained my old diet. I use to tell people I only eat seafood but I would not say I was vegetarian. It could be possible she doesn't know the term. Maybe if you educate her then she will be less inclined to call herself a vegetarian at least read the information on wikipedia because they have tons of information on the many different types of somewhat vegetarian based diets out there.

Answer 3

Forget the word "meat" for a minute. Vegetarians don't eat dead animals. Fish are animals. Therefore, vegetarians don't eat fish. Fish-eaters need to stop confusing everyone by calling themselves vegetarians when they are clearly not.

Answer 4

Your friend is not a vegetarian, but a pescatarian. Vegetarians do not eat the flesh of anything that was once alive, or that bleeds. Tell her there are many resources on the internet for information about being a pescatarian. Vegetarians are pretty sensitive about people who misuse the term-its why there is so much confusion and misunderstanding. Its her choice what she eats or doesnt eat, but she should refer to it accordingly.

Answer 5

Fish are animals whether you call their flesh "meat "or not.
Vegetarianism is about not eating animals, not other people's definition of the word "meat."
I wanted to be vegetarian because I didn't want to eat animals. When people say they are "vegetarian" and eat animals, it makes the word meaningless; it is trivializing my belief system as well.
If you say "pesco-vegetarian" you might as well say "beefo-porko-vegetarian" or "republican-democrat." It's just ridiculous.
I remember getting really annoyed in gradeschool when the Catholic kids said "fish isn't meat" and that was several years before I would give up meat eating.

Answer 6

Your friend is not really a true vegetarian, but is a subset of meat eater that excludes red meat and poultry. Fish is still a meat (in that it's the flesh of a living being) and therefore doesn't count for proper vegetarianism. She's semi-vegitarian, possibly pescetarian...

Answer 7

Vegetarian means you do not eat animal meat. A fish is an animal.

Answer 8

True vegetarians do not eat meat of any kind - and fish is meat!! Fish are living creatures with a central nervous system, flesh and bone. They are an animal, therefore MEAT.

Answer 9

Fish are live creatures, so have Flesh, it's flesh is called meat. You must kill it to eat it. Veggie & Vegan do not kill living creatures to eat them.

Plants do not have brains or truely feel pain, or bleed. In fact most plants can have their "Fruit" harvested with out killing the plant itself. Apples, Tomatoes, Beans etc all leave behind the host plant still able to continue to bear more fruit.

Obviously I am not 1 to "beleive in" all the subsets of Being a Veggie. Either you are or you are not.

Answer 10

A vegetarian is someone who doest eat ANY type of flesh
and that counts as fish

however a person who does eat fish is called a pescatarian
TELL HER OFF!

lol

=)

Answer 11

If she doesn't think that a organism on the animilia kingdom is an animal she musn't be very bright. Tell her that that that's a very ignorant and stupid notion.

PS: Also to answerer above me fish are killed and live very inhumanely. The ones catched at sea are catched in thousands and suffocated then there gills are cut while they go down conveyor belts. The ones harvested like grain in tiny tanks live in tanks with thousands of other fish in a tiny tank. It's a proven fact that 40% of the fish die of disease before shipped off to a slaughterhouse.