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"Ummm... so is a fish a vegetable now?"
Hello!
My name is Lewis, and I am a vegetarian. Almost a vegan, but I sometimes eat chocolate and cake. Sometimes even chocolate cake. Or, my favourite - chocolate and banana cake.
Anyway. I don't eat meat. And I shouldn't need to clarify, but I also don't eat fish.
Fish as vegetables
Me: Yes. I'm a vegetarian.
Dumbo: Really? So you don't eat meat?
Me: No. I'm a vegetarian.
Dumbo: So what do you eat? Like beans and stuff?
Me: Uhh.. I eat everything that isn't made of meat...
Dumbo: So do you eat fish?
Me: Where did you go to school?! I'm a vegetarian! A fish is not a vegetable!
Dumbo: I know, but some vegetarians eat fish...
Me: Well those people are not vegetarians. They are Pescetarians. They eat seafood but no other meat.
Dumbo: But seriously, what do you eat? Like, if I ordered a ham sandwich, what would you eat? Just bread?!
Me: Oh jeez...
Dumbo: So if you went to a restaurant, what do you order? If they don't have vegetarian stuff? Fish?
Me: Please God Save Me From This Man.
A definition for you to, umm.. sink your teeth into:
"Pesco/pollo vegetarianism", "pescetarianism", and "semi-vegetarianism" are neologisms coined to describe certain lifestyles of restricted diet. Most commonly, these include the practice of not eating certain types of meat (most commonly "red" meat such as beef, pork, lamb) while allowing others, such as seafood.
Pescetarians on Wikipedia
- Pescetarians on Wikipedia
- Conclusive proof that such creatures exist. Pescetarians. Here they are. They lurk on this page.
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VeganGirl wrote
in reply to SOMEONE Yeah they do. Sharks, especially, have complex social networks and ties to other sharks. Something as small as a Lake Trout also has a social order of some kind. Just because the fish can't reach up, unhook it's mouth from your fishing pole and say "OUCH!" doesn't mean it can't feel.
Grow a brain, already, SOMEONE.
VEGANS RULE!
Posted July 08, 2009
MrLewisSmile wrote...
in reply to Dumbo You should read the intro again. You seem to have misunderstood!
Posted July 02, 2009
Squidoo_girl wrote...
I'm a pescetarian for about 10 years now, started when I was a teenager.
I know that guy you spoke to, by the way, I meet dumbo all the time...lol.
Most of my friends are meat eaters and I get so much interrogations into my eating habits that it used to annoy be big-time, but by now I'm used to it.
Posted July 02, 2009
Dumbo wrote
Um chocolate cake is not a vegetable buddy sorry, eggs, milk, and cake
oh yeah even the yeast is an animal so ummm.....get off your high horse
Posted July 01, 2009
SOMEONE wrote
FISH DON'T HAVE FEELINGS....
Posted June 26, 2009
seamus wrote
[iin n reply to Swisstoons] is someone who eats chicken and fish called a cacklepescetarian?
Posted June 25, 2009
Reira wrote
I'm a pescetarian.. it sounds like you hate them or something... I only eat fish because they are killed more humanely- I don't eat farmed fish, only caught wild fish who were killed instantly so they didnt suffer,and I only eat them because I cant get essential omega oils in other ways as I'm allergic to flax seeds.
Posted June 07, 2009
Swisstoons wrote...
Had I read your next module before posting my last comment, I probably would not have posted it. I had assumed you were a vegetarian for health reasons and didn't consider the other possibilities.
Posted June 04, 2009
Swisstoons wrote...
I was a vegetarian for about a year and a half in the 1980's. I still only eat red meat once or twice a year...steaks grilled outside on a couple of summer holidays. Mainly, I eat fish three or four times a week (pescetarian) and chicken once or twice a week (cackletarian).
Posted June 04, 2009
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Although getting a non-vegetarian to read it might prove something of a struggle!
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