Are you still considered a vegetarian if you eat fish?

Question

Are you still considered a vegetarian if you eat fish?

Answer 1

Yes you are.

Answer 2

Not to me. Fish are animals too. and are killed brutally with fishing nets and drowning and then just getting gutted alive......

Answer 3

No you are not considered a vegetarian if you eat fish. Fish is an animal and therefore meat. Vegetarians don't eat any type of animal.

Answer 4

If you look an the new Merriem Webster dictionary, you might see a different answer from what the cheering squad has to say.

Apparently, they considered pescetarian a sub group of vegetarians based on on the fact that many people say they are vegetarians but they eat fish (and or chicken). It would seem that vegetarian is frequently used for pescetarians as well so the definition was added to the vegetarian category. I may be wrong but that was the apparent reason given.

Not  saying that is right or  wrong but answering your question.. Just a different view of how things are seen with a broader mind. And less obsession with labels that, frankly, don't mean anything.

Personally, I think Merriem Webster made a bad mistake and should correct it (if they have not )

Answer 5

no but it's annoying when people tell me vegetarians do eat fish and that I should.

Answer 6

No, they are considered Pescetarians (also known as Pesco- tarians or vegequarians) since fishes are animals

Here are different types of vegetarians or omnivores

Total Vegetarians eat only plant food. They do not eat any animal foods, including fish, eggs, dairy products, and honey.

Vegans not only omit all animal products from their diets, but they also eliminate them from the rest of their life. Vegans use nothing from animals, such as leather, wool, and silk.

Lacto-Vegetarians will include dairy products into their diet of plant food.

Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarians eat both eggs and dairy products.

Pesco-Vegetarians include fish into their diets.

Pollo-Vegetarians eat poultry, such as chicken, turkey, and duck.

Flexitarians eat meat occasionally

Answer 7

Only by other people who eat fish and call themselves vegetarians, some meat eaters and Merriam Webster's new dictionary of inaccurate definitions.

Real vegetarians who don't eat animals don't consider people who eat fish to be vegetarians.

Answer 8

Nope. Vegetarians don't eat animal flesh and fish are animals.

Someone who eats fish and no other meat is called a pescetarian. Pescetarianism isn't a form of vegetarianism, since fish isn't included in any type of vegetarian diet.

Answer 9

I consider myself a vegetarian and I eat fish.

Because it is easier to say "Vegetarian" than "Pescetarian" and people understand what vegetarianism is. You tell people youre a Pescetarian and they ask what sort of religion is it.

Answer 10

Vegetarians do not eat animals.

Fish are animals.

Merriam-Webster has a very low standard of research.

Answer 11

No cause fish are animals too!!

Answer 12

zomg!@!!! you are teh anti-veggie

yeah seriously, if you didn't get it yet its NOT veggie.

morningstar farms veggie patties are though :)

Answer 13

No. Vegetarians don't eat fish because fish is an animal.

Pescatarians eat fish but they are not vegetarians because fish is flesh.

[edit] Flexitarianism doesn't exist. Somebody who eats meat occasionally is still a meat eater.

Answer 14

That's  the unspeakable sin against the Holy Ghost.

Answer 15

No fish and poultry are **not** vegetarian.

The biological or taxonomic classification of fish is:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chrordata

Their Class, SubClass, Order, Family, Genus and Species may vary but they all belong to the the kingdom *ANIMALIA*.

Fish are animals not plants, so no vegetarains don't eat fish or any sea creatures at all.

Answer 16

No, vegetarians do not eat dead animals.

Answer 17

Absolutely not.

Fish are animals.

Vegetarians don't eat animals.

If you eat fish, you aren't a vegetarian.

There is not a single veg*n organization that considers pescetarianism a form of vegetarianism.