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Originally Posted by albania
I don't see what your ethnicity would have anything to do with it. It seemed to me that you were simply mistaken about the definition of the word animal. As I know it animal means any creature in the kingdom animalia, and I thought that was what it was commonly understood to mean. That's what onesnowyowl was pointing out: fish are animals(because they're in the kingdom animalia).
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My ethnicity has
everything to do with it. The rule as I grew up was that meat and dairy were not allowed at the same table. But when we had fish, dairy was okay. Cattle and chicken have legs and live on land, fish don't. Maybe it's the Hebrew translation, but I'm fairly certain these thoughts (right or wrong, according to
who?) have been around for at least a couple of thousand years.
Secondly, I stated my opinion. Period. Yes, it is definitely open to interpretation. I'm surprised that the dictionary definition is the end-all for TFPers.
Here's another different opinion.
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Originally Posted by PAENITEMINI (Apostolic Constitution On Penance) Pope Paul VI
The word used for meat is carnis. In modern English, the word meat can refer to any animal flesh. But, in the Latin cited here, it refers to mammals and birds only. So, fish, seafood, amphibians, and insects are permitted (assuming you want to eat some of them); but mammals and fowls are not.
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The OP asked for opinions (poll) and I stated mine.