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Please do not forget that there are people who do not eat fish not only becuase they ARE animals, but becuase the fishing industry is HORRIFIC and DISGUSTING.
The fishing industry harms other marine life, brings non native sea life into other parts of the ocean which creates a problem for some of the native sea life.
Fish farming is cruel and creates miles and miles of polutants including feces and dead fish....
I mean, just google it - who wants to support that?
Very well said.
Sea food was the last flesh I abandonded, as I lived on the coast. Many years ago I would meet the boats on the docks in the evening and buy fresh shrimp and scallops.
Now that I live in-land that is not an option.
I currently eat NO animal flesh. But, as I have mentioned in other posts, I do have some inner conflict. (I think I mentioned lobster in particular). Is "ganglia" the same as a brain? What if broccoli and sea urchins have similar sentience?
I was very interested in the reply by the Buddhist poster who would not kill to eat. I have the opposite view point: I would not eat anything I would not be willing to kill. I think of it as a sacrifice and a sign of respect.
So, if it came down to starving? I would try to eat nuts and plants first. If I had to resort to shellfish and mollusks? I could probably do that. I would have a very difficult time with anything piscine, avian, or mammalian.
How about some Poke berries? The birds are eating them so they must be good. I think that if I were put in a situation where I felt that eating flesh was probably the only means of survival, the only food available, that I would probably not be carrying the field guide of regional edible plants.
Didn't realize it would touch such a nerve with anyone but I will not apologize for living my values. I don't want to eat something which was once a living, sentient being.
Most living creatures are not sentient. Hey, even some humans aren't sentient. My ex-husband for example.
Location: Pittsburgh but I'm ready to relocate......
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I was a Vegetarian for 20 years....Pretty much since I was born. I went through a phase of only eating fish and then I went to being a vegetarian. Recently I start eating fish,beef,poultry again but now I'm going back to the vegetarian lifestyle. Point I'm trying to make is their is a difference.
i know being a vegetarian means no fish but animal products including dairy can be eaten. But if you in a dilemma of either you eat land animals or seafood, where would you stand?
Vegetarians don't eat animals. Fish are animals.
I get really annoyed with people who call themselves vegetarians but then eat animals.
Just last week at a restaurant I overheard a woman at a nearby table asking the server about vegetarian options, and then she added, "Or chicken, I am vegetarian but I do eat chicken."
The confusion probably arises in part since there's a long history in the Judeo-Christian tradition of treating "fish" separately from "meat" (whether you agree with the colloquial usage or not). There's a confusion in our culture as to whether meat is the general term used to refer to all animals consumed as meat (most vegetarians use it this way) or only some.
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Hey, even some humans aren't sentient. My ex-husband for example.
