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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
(I don't know how to do polls.)
Earlier tonight a friend asked me if I wanted to go out to the bay to this all-you-can eat seafood buffet but I declined on the basis that I don't eat meat. She responding by saying fish wasn't meat. So I asked her what it was and she replied "Fish". Really, I don't understand this argument at all. How isn't fish meat? The way I see it, anything which could be considered 'flesh' is meat. I really don't understand how people can rationalize not eating, say, chicken or beef while eating fish.
So what do you think? Meat or not?
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Is your friend Catholic?
And I guess the answer to your question depends on the reasons you don't eat meat.
A lot of people who avoid meat for dietary reasons do OK with fish.
A lot of people who don't eat meat for PETAesque "farming is cruel" reasons are ok with eating fish if it is caught in the wild (note: a lot of =/= all, I don't want to hear from the people who disagree with this...save your breath)
A lot of people who don't/didn't eat meat on Fridays/during lent because the Church told them not to eat fish because the Church said it was OK.
This reminds me of an anecdote in Richard Feynman's autobiography where a group of Muslims asked him if electricity was fire. Turns out, there are special spark-free switches that orthodox members of certain sects can install to ensure that no 'fire' is accidently created when it is forbidden.