Don’t know if this belongs on here, but my vegan aunt refuses to acknowledge fish as a meat, and it drives me up the wall.
I think it is meat, but not meat like poultry or red meat, it is meat cause it is animal flesh, but it is not normal meat. I know, hard to understand.
An American contact of mine claims to be vegetarian but eats chicken. His argument being if chicken is meat then why is it called poultry. That is easily answered by looking in any good dictionary and finding that poultry is domesticated birds kept for their eggs, feathers or meat. But what makes his case worse, in my view, is that he is employed by a school in Thailand to teach their children English and he appears not to understand the language himself.
He also needs to get out more if he thinks you don't barbecue fish, when in Thailand we would go down to the local watering hole and catch fish then barbecue them there to go with the rice and other things we brought along.
Wait..... if I’m Catholic (don’t judge me, it’s my religion and I don’t care the frick you say), and we don’t eat meat during Lent on a Friday during Lent, but we can eat seafood, I guess it’s “not a meat”, but it still is. I know fish is meat, but I consider it to be meat, but not really meat. Does that make sense, I don’t know how to explain it.
The reason seafood is allowed on lent is because back in the old days, most pastors ran fishing businesses. So fish is still meat. The pastors just wanted some money.
Oh...and I think it’s also because fish is a very important religious symbol, I think that’s the reason.
This is a legitimate grievance. I am a strict lacto-ovo vegetarian. People claiming a label that doesn’t apply to them only makes it harder for the rest of us who experience the joy of ordering ‘vegetarian’ dishes that come out with tuna on them. Please pass that feedback to your non-vegan aunt, and explain that she is, in fact, a pescetarian (also known as a fish and chipocrite).
Is she a vegan or a vegetarian? Don't vegans not use any animal products? (That's what I've always thought the label meant, but I could be entirely wrong).
Vegans won't use any animal product, including meat, dairy, eggs, all the way to honey (because it's using a product made by bees).
Not so sure about that, but then birds in general are my life, and penguins are the ones I find least appealing. Maybe I've been bitten by too many. I have a secret theory that a Penguin is just a fish with good PR.
