I can understand you calling yourself a vegetarian at a restaurant for ease because you don't like meat or want it anywhere near you. However I know people(my brother being one of them) that will tell you they are vegetarian and lecture you on eating meat, while tucking into some fish! I just find it bizarre and annoying.

I respect your choice and wouldn't name call.

It's vegans who don't wear leather.

I quite fancy a salty Dolphin burger:

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20070214142140

As she wears leather shoes and carries a leather hand bag

yeah, but is a handbag an animal?

It used to be

But she wasn't intending on eating her shoes and handbag.

It's vegans who don't wear leather.

If you eat processed foods (or pre-prepared meals) then you likely unintentionally eat insects (or pieces of insects)


Dolphins just have better PR agents

I know people who call themselves vegetarians yet they eat fish. It's daft but as I grew up Catholic I can understand someone thinking fish is not meat.

We used to not eat meat on a Friday according to Catholic tradition but we could eat fish so I always think of fish as separate to meat. In most cook books you'll have fish dishes separate to meat dishes so one can see why people don't think of fish as meat as such. I still know a fish is an animal though and I don't get calling yourself a vegetarian while eating it.

Exactly they're Pescetarians.

You would think the fact that fish were sold in Pet shops would be an indication that they're still animals.

On a slight side note...

What are Transformers?

I mean, they're not plants...?

Well, they're robots aren't they? Surely everyone knows that.

That's definitely what they used to be

Not that familiar with the films, but aren't they "aliens" now?

I guess they can be Robot Aliens. They could be animals? or even minerals?

We should ask Bear if he's heard anything.

I do agree. Even while being right, he was somehow almost as ridiculous.

At least he (sort of) understood that fish aren't plants.

What would be really funny would be to have some kind of BB task and confront these two idiots with Fungi, Algae and Bacteria and have them have to deal with the idea that Mushrooms and pool scum aren't plants, and that Bacteria aren't simply tiny little animals. Or that Viruses, for example, aren't strictly even defined as life.

Ah Biology. The school period idiots somehow sleep through but still pass somehow.


As a nutritional/dietary choice its not really that daft. Ethically one could make a distinguishing line between lower and higher animals and decided that fish fall on one side and mammals and birds on another (a harder sell with birds--and we haven't even gotten to the reptiles or amphibians). Or decide that red meat, by and large, isn't as healthy, and just toss in the other land animals to boot.

Its just delusional if you really use it as a basis to believe that Fish aren't animals. If one makes a choice like this it behooves you to understand why it matters.

It was the sort of convo a couple of five year olds would have.

so what are Triffids then ?

Planimals

In the words of Kurt Cobain "it's ok to eat fish cos they don't have any feeeeelings"

I think that people have to have the intelligence and desire to be educated, unlike some of this lot who think work involves acting like the lowest of the low on TV.

... or sea cucumbers.

Yes - but not part of the phylum chordata ?

Double standards though, not happy to eat meat but delighted to wear it

Your point eludes me, I'm afraid.

Fictional.

It's because fish ISN'T meat in the relevant definition of "meat".

It's irrelevant that fish are mean in some other meaning of "meant".