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What do Vegans think of Pescatarians?
Sifter22
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So as most of us know a Pescatarian is:
I'm just wondering why they eat fish and not meat? And what do Vegans and also Veggies think of them in terms of their morality towards creatures. Is there a good argument why they will not eat flesh but are okay with fish/seafood?
.wikiPescetarianism /ˌpɛskɨˈtɛəriən/ (also spelled pescatarianism) is the practice of following a diet that includes fish or other seafood, but not the flesh of other animals. A pescetarian diet typically shares many of its components with a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet and may include vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, beans, eggs, dairy, and insect byproducts (such as honey, carmine, or shellac), but a vegetarian diet excludes meat. The Merriam-Webster dictionary dates the origin of the term pescetarian to 1993 and defines it as: "one whose diet includes fish but no other meat."
I'm just wondering why they eat fish and not meat? And what do Vegans and also Veggies think of them in terms of their morality towards creatures. Is there a good argument why they will not eat flesh but are okay with fish/seafood?
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This. Although I must admit to not understanding the logic behind pescatarianism for ethical reasons, but that may be just because no ones ever given me a good explanation for it like my various veggie and vegan friends have done for their choices
Because they are not red bloodied mammals?
Dont know really. Fish do have blood though. And its very good for you.(the fish not the blood)
Same goes for birds. In fact, I'd imagine that a fair few rabbits get hoovered up every day, and anything that eats grass is pretty much at the bottom of the food chain.
Best to just avoid crocodile, lion, orca and eagle, methinks! ;-)
I wouldn't even consider eating meat when it's likely to have been killed in a way stipulated by religion, unless there was nothing else available. Don't want no stinkin' prayers in my food thank you.
Won't somebody think of the fishies!
About 10 years ago, I stopped eating red meat because I was skeptical about the hormones etc and all the other crap that gets put into the food chain - proven right several years later when it emerged we were eating horse. After about a year of not touching red meat, I just went off all other meat.
It's not a moral choice for me - a medical condition affects my digestion, so there's only a limited number of things I can eat.
I actually don't like fish much, but it's my only source of protein, so I eat it every day.
I don't understand pescatarianism for moral reasons though. I can't see why killing a fish is somehow OK when killing a chicken or rabbit isn't.
But then I'm also amazed by the number of people who will happily eat beef but wouldn't dream of eating horse. I can't understand it - it's basically the same animal, except that horses have longer legs and longer necks. I don't understand what people think is different about killing and eating a cow V killing and eating a horse. It's exactly the same!
Ha ha, fair enough then!
They do eat meat; they eat fish.
Fish is a meat.
Why is any argument - good or otherwise - needed? It's a preference. Other people have different preferences.
I think vegans are the only people who might be entitled to preach (albeit annoyingly) to others about their food habits when it comes to a reliance on animals.
Vegetarians are like some kind of half way house, neither here nor there and for me are in no position to sit on any kind of moral high ground when it comes to this.
well, for one thing, apples evolved to be eaten.
Oh I didnt realise there was an "eat me" dna code in apples
and that it doesnt exist in fish
pls explain more,soz
Fish don't have pips.