FTA:
“Nutritionally, it is far more efficient than meat”
TIL Fish is not meat…
At one time both capybaras and puffins were classified as fish by the church to allow their consumption on all days. They were just too convenient to ignore.
Is it not common in most places to differentiate land animals (meat) from sea animals (fish)? I get your point that there’s no real distinction to make philosophically, but it’s customary and most people understand it?
No? The only times I’ve seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons. Generally you’d categorize the meat by the type of animal, such as beef, pork, chicken/poultry, or the broad categories like fish or shellfish.
Maybe it just depends on if you live someplace that’s very religious or not?
The only times I’ve seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons
I think going to the restaurant located inside my local church was a mistake
I dunno, I just assumed that anything that bleeds when you kill it is meat.
Even to his day, I still meet “vegetarians” who eat fish. Usually boomer age.
I once met a vegetarian when i was only 8 and wasn’t even sure what that was. She explained that she doesn’t eat meat, just fish and chicken. Instead of just asking a real adult, i made shit up in my brain like: fjsh aren’t meat and neither are chickens, because their meat is white or some shit.
is there not a term for that? What do you call someone who chooses not to eat red meat? (Not for religious or cultural reasons)