Poll: Why do people think fish isn't a meat?

[Gralian]

I assume it's due to the severe lack of intelligence on the part of the fish that vegetarians declare it okay to eat them. I'm not a vegetarian myself, but one can only assume they think to themselves "Whatever i'm going to do something has to die. Even plants are living, and i have to eat something. Fish are barely living, right? Let's just stick with that."

 

[Nouw]

In my experience it has always been "vegetarians" attempting to justify themselves.

Yeah me too. I know heaps of people who are Vegetarian and they're like "I CAN EAT FISH!!!"

 

[PoliceBox63]

It's a leftover thing from christianity/catholicism. The whole no meat on a friday.
It's a meat.

look up why there is no meat one fridays....its....from what i know..has nothing to do with religion and more with economics

No. Canon law says that all Fridays of the year Catholics can't eat meat.

Im talking about why the law was made. from what i know because everyone was buying cows to eat and the italian(or whoever exactly) 's fishing businesses were doing so bad the pope said. EAR FISH FRIDAYS!!! NO MEAT...and so it was... (not his exact words)

What law you talking bout, willis?

 

[dogenzakaminion]

What we call meat is actually muscle. The part of the fish we eat is also the fish's muscle, therefore also meat. Unless you're from Norway like me and eat the fish's head...I dont know what thats called.

 

[direkiller]

They aren't considered meat in a basic food pie chart (dairy, fat, etc.) But they fall under "Meat, Fish and Alternatives". 'Alternatives' being things like eggs, which will apply to Vegans. As a note eggs appear in other categories too. So they are technically meat, and a pet peeve of my is those that don't consider them meat but call themselves a Vegetarian. Fucking Pescatarian in denial more like. *glares at dad's girlfriend*

My sister calls herself vegetation but eats eggs because there just chicken periods and they would never amount to a living.(idk kinda let her slide on that one because she is right)

According to Catholic law/mythos...God said so.

I'm surprised as to how long it took for someone to give the proper answer.

But yeah, it's that, God said you could it eat on some Friday or something, meaning it wasn't meat (makes no sense to me, but whatever).

OK why would God think that fish isn't meat (or in my few why did the people that wrote the bible think fish isn't meat)

The bible dosen't say fish are not meat. To lazy to look it up but it basically said you will not eat living things on land. Over 2000 years it just got shorted to not eating meat on Friday/Christmas. So thus people think fish is not meat.

it also applys to beavers being classed as a fish so its not exactly a great source of vegitarian advice or even picetarian

never said it was good advice was just saying things get misunderstood very easily

 

[Halceon]

Fish are just a packaged river.

 

[glodud]

I think it's because we naturally think meat is from mammals

 

[Gudrests]

It's a leftover thing from christianity/catholicism. The whole no meat on a friday.
It's a meat.

look up why there is no meat one fridays....its....from what i know..has nothing to do with religion and more with economics

No. Canon law says that all Fridays of the year Catholics can't eat meat.

Im talking about why the law was made. from what i know because everyone was buying cows to eat and the italian(or whoever exactly) 's fishing businesses were doing so bad the pope said. EAR FISH FRIDAYS!!! NO MEAT...and so it was... (not his exact words)

What law you talking bout, willis?

^ that one ...the no meat on friday crap

 

[BGH122]

Because they don't want to accept to themselves that there's no logical justification for animal rights and that the only reason they pretend such a thing exists is that they don't have the strength of will to control their primitive urge to find the killing of any animal that's vaguely humanistic in conflict with empathy, which was intended to secure human society.

 

[EqualNOpposite]

My guess is that it's the texture. Fish, as a food, feels wildly different on the tongue and teeth than the meat of a mammal. I suppose people wouldn't count a fish as meat 'cause it doesn't FEEL like meat. Or maybe 'cause you can't grill it.

 

[thenoblitt]

cause fish usually caught in rivers and ponds and in the oceans where they havent been kept in a cage or anything their whole lives, alot of vegetarians (well the ones i know) are really just against treating animals horribly, like locking them in cages their whole life, so i guess to answer your question i dont know why they say it isnt meat but i can understand why they eat fish (well some of them anyway)

 

[HitsWithStyxx]

It's not meat because the physical attributes are totally different. Meat is chewy, has veins of fat and gristle, and is incredibly bloody when raw. Fish, on the other hand, tends to be flaky, and largely fat-free with a minuscule amount of blood.

Quite an easy distinction to make.

Please please tell me you're not being serious.
That's like saying a plastic bag isn't made of plastic because it's soft and thing while my pen is made of plastic because it is hard and thick. They're both plastic and fish and chicken and pigs and so on are all meat.

It seems I phrased myself badly.

Most people here seem to be arguing whether or not fish qualifies as flesh, which it obviously does. I've always seen all animal flesh as being split into separate groups. Meat for land-based animals and mammals; Poultry for birds and chicken and such; and Fish for fish and shellfish (etc.), of course.
When people say meat but mean "the flesh of an animal", then yes, fish is a meat, but if people just describe fish as meat, I think they're wrong because of how I see the different groups of animal flesh.
Can you see where I'm coming from?

 

[Danpascooch]

Fish can't think or feel

you can teach fish to do tricks.

That's a load of crap, maybe one fish once did something resembling a trick, but there is no way that even 1% of fish could be taught tricks.

 

[Kair]

Many people just don't like most forms of meat, and call themselves vegetarians because it is simpler than having people believe they are picky. We need to stop putting people into groups.

 

[Oktanas]

Probably because jesus eated fish and now that is consider not to be meat.

 

[chstens]

Fish is fish and meat is food.

In all seriousness, though. Fishmeat is meat.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

It's a leftover thing from christianity/catholicism. The whole no meat on a friday.
It's a meat.

That's got nothing to do with Christianity itself - Protestants eat meat whenever they feel like it, and there's no proscriptions about eating meat that is not fish (which is definitely meat) on Fridays in scripture. It's simply a Catholic 'tradition', though the reasons for it are not religious whatsoever.

No, what actually happened is that one day a pope decided he wanted to bolster the local fishing industry, and so he mandated that Catholics should eat fish on Friday. That's it, that's the entire reason Catholics still eat fish on Fridays to this very day, and most of them have no idea why - if you ask them they'll probably think it does have something to do with their religion itself, but it's really just some long dead pope telling you "Support your local fisherman!".

 

[Velvo]

Fish is a meat. It's a different kind of meat, but it's a meat.

However, the meat packing industry refers to "meat" as mammalian products, excluding fish and poultry from their definition.

Besides, fish do not have the complex emotional/cognitive capabilities that we recognize so readily in mammals and possibly even birds (fish, reptiles and amphibians have never heard of love, I can assure you, let alone all manner of invertebrates).