Can a Vegetarian eat fish?

[the monopoly guy]

Do fish belong to the animal kingdom? Yes
Are fish vertibrates? Yes
Are fish plants? No

Can vegitareans eat fish? They can eat a double bacon cheeseburger for all I care it's not like their allergic.

 

[internutt]

The real question is, can vegetarian's visit towns with ham in the name?

Westham, etc.

 

[Legendel]

Ok to clarify:

Pescetarianism is a dietary choice, in which a person, known as a pescetarian, eats any combination of vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans and fish or invertebrate seafood, but will not eat mammals or birds. Some animal products like eggs and dairy may or may not be part of a pescetarian diet plan.

Terms like "pesco-vegetarianism" are sometimes used to describe pescetarianism, to emphasize that pescetarians eat vegetables, fruit, and grains as well as fish. However, this term is controversial and less used, in part because it implies that pescetarianism is a type of vegetarianism, and some vegetarian groups do not want to be aligned with fish eaters. The Vegetarian Society, which initiated popular use of the term vegetarian as early as 1847, does not consider pescetarianism a valid vegetarian diet. The definitions of "vegetarian" in authoritative, mainstream dictionaries vary. So what I'm trying to ask is your opinion I don't believe there is an actual answer, just a general agreement.

 

[LordOmnit]

To answer the original question:
Yes a vegetarian can eat fish.
No, he cannot legitimately call himself a vegitarian after eating the fish (unless s/he never eats animal flesh or reproductive cells again).
As for the other types of veggies-
Ovo: don't you dare tell me you are a vegetarian
Lacto-ovo: you either
Lacto: harebol
Vegan: I never will understand you people and will still courteously invite you to barbeques, but don't expect any veggie burgers if you come you hypocrite.
Raw vegan: how the hell are you alive?

 

[bad rider]

Don't vegetarians not eat animals because its cruel thus the whole "i eat fish thing" is kind of ironic unless you believe fish can't feel pain...

Unless your a vegetarian because you are allergic etc to meat, of which if you can eat fish, go for it!

 

[bad rider]

Again, humans are on the top of the food chain, animals can go suck it.

Sure, let's put you in a room with a lion and see how that works out.

Depends which one has the hand grenade.

 

[stompy]

To answer the original question:
Yes a vegetarian can eat fish.
No, he cannot legitimately call himself a vegitarian after eating the fish (unless s/he never eats animal flesh or reproductive cells again).
As for the other types of veggies-
Ovo: don't you dare tell me you are a vegetarian
Lacto-ovo: you either
Lacto: harebol
Vegan: I never will understand you people and will still courteously invite you to barbeques, but don't expect any veggie burgers if you come you hypocrite.
Raw vegan: how the hell are you alive?

You'd best be joking.

Anyways, people have often told me that I don't know what I'm talking about when I say vegetarians don't eat fish. They aren't considered vegetarians because a living thing (that has some sort of mental processes), and ones that have flesh, and no matter how many times I tell them this, they don't listen. Even when I, the vegetarian, tell them, the meat eaters.

Anyways, I reckon that if you eat fish, you aren't vegetarian. I myself am lacto-ovo-vegetarian, but I don't eat much egg because it isn't allowed in the house (of my lacto-vegetarian parents).

 

[LordOmnit]

You'd best be joking.

About which part? Is it that vegetarians can eat fish? Yes, they still have the capacity to. I was being overly literal and that's why I added the second part.

Anyways, people have often told me that I don't know what I'm talking about when I say vegetarians don't eat fish. They aren't considered vegetarians because a living thing (that has some sort of mental processes), and ones that have flesh, and no matter how many times I tell them this, they don't listen. Even when I, the vegetarian, tell them, the meat eaters.

Okay, you clearly didn't read my saying that I DON'T think that fish-eaters are vegetarians.

Anyways, I reckon that if you eat fish, you aren't vegetarian. I myself am lacto-ovo-vegetarian, but I don't eat much egg because it isn't allowed in the house (of my lacto-vegetarian parents).

I shall give you the benifet of a doubt and have you explain why you think you can still call yourself a vegetarian when you still choose to eat eggs.

 

[fedpayne]

You can eat fish and call yourself a vegetarian and be WRONG. Depending on your reasons for being a vegetarian, telling yourself it's ok to eat fish is ridiculous. I do know some personal taste vegetarians (he's NEVER had meat, ever), and if he ate fish and liked it but ate meat and didn't like it that would be fine, although he wouldn't be a vegetarian. I jsut find it hard to believe that the people who eat fish like fish but not meat. If they're eating fish because 'it doesn't feel pain' or becuase 'fish is not an animal' then that is having your cake and eating it too you smug, self-righteous jerks.
According to the Catholic Church, the beaver is a fish. Would you like to eat beaver?







I know!

 

[Mirika_the_warrior]

No, and the real question should be should be 'should a vegetarian eat animal crackers'

my answer to that is a bonafide um...?

 

[LordOmnit]

Beaver sounds good, sign my non-vegetarian self up for it.

 

[Brett Alex]

I prefer the term Aquatarian, but thats just me. I don't think its necessarily hypocritical, I was raised a vegetarian (not for ethical reasons, my parents were sick of getting bad quality meat when they were expat workers and stopped eating it/cooking it since then) and it was always so much easier to tell people "I'm a vegetarian," than to do the whole chicken/pork/beef/fish song and dance:

Me:I don't eat meat.
Person: You allergic?
Me: No I just don't eat it.
Person: You eat chicken right?
Me No thats meat, I'm a vegetarian.
Person: Why didn't you just say that?
Me: Well I eat fish but-
Person: Ah then your not a vegetarian
Me: No, fish is technically meat but it is very different to red meats or chicken.
Person: So you eat chicken?
Me: *explodes*

Of course when you say "I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish-" there is still an argument, its just a lot shorter.

 

[Knight Templar]

no, next question.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I knew a guy who couldn't eat high amount of Iron, so he had to stay away from any red meats. However he could have fish.

He wasn't a vegetarian by choice but he still ate fish. That's the only example I can think where not eating red meats but eating fish makes sense,

 

[Ares Tyr]

I always thought that vegetarians were allowed occasional fish and chicken, but if not, then I heard wrong.

I know that Vegans don't consume anything that comes from animals including milk and what not.

Either way, it does not affect me, which explains my little picture. The only animal I watch how much I eat of is pork because as a great man once said:

"I don't dig on swine, pigs are filthy animals..."

- Samuel L. Jackson.

I do eat pepporoni, but apart from that I rarely eat pork other than the very, very occasional rack of ribs. In which case I say "Fuck my conviction, this shit is good". However, I rarely, rarely eat those.

 

[Brett Alex]

Just call yourself the right term (pescetarian) then and avoid all this inane babbling drama.

Its not really a problem anymore, I eat just about anything now, mainly cause I got sick of going out places and having to get a salad of all things. Don't get me wrong, I like salads, but they always seem to cost more than a burger, be of dubious quality and be far less filling.

Back to the point, I suppose I would have called myself a pescetarian, except that I didn't know what it was, and I'm not sure how many of the people who are mind boggled by that fact that I don't eat chicken would know what it was either.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

And another thing!... vegetarian is a term used to describe ANY animal that eats ONLY plants... when was the last time you saw a horse eat a rabbit??

You're thinking of herbivore. That's not the same. A herbivore is usually unable to digest meat because of the way their digestive system works. A vegetarian is (usually) a vegetarian by choice.

Also I'm sure I saw a documentary, that on a small island a farmer had put herds of sheep and cows, but they weren't getting enough to eat, so they turned to chewing the bones of dead birds for the marrow. Then later on they started eating the birds themselves (Chicks that couldn't fly). So even herbivores will eat meat under circustances where it is needed. I wish I could get a source to show you, but it might take a while to find, so bear with me while I search the net for it.

Edit: Here we are, I apologise for it being the Sun, rest assured that I did not get the original news from them, it was a documentary on Animal Planet.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article146406.ece