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A vegetarian diet has never included fish. You’re thinking of pescatarianism.
by udp 9y ago
A vegetarian diet has never included fish. You’re thinking of pescatarianism.
- maxerickson 9y agoNo, we're descriptivists in this thread and plenty of people that are vegetarians eat fish and eggs.
- udp 9y agoI think everyone is in agreement about what "vegetarian" means apart from you. Vegetarians don't eat the flesh of animals, and it's always been like that. Eggs and milk are animal products, not the flesh of animals - so vegetarians can still eat them. Vegans don't eat animal products at all, which rules out eggs and milk. Pescatarians eat fish, but they aren't vegetarians. So if N is the number of distinct foods you can eat, N(pescatarians) > N(vegetarians) > N(vegans). Is there anything in particular about this that you find difficult to understand? I can model it as an ontology for you, perhaps?
- maxerickson 9y agoI like how you offer to construct an ontology in a thread where I admitted I'm being tiresome. I'm pretty okay going with the assumption I started with though, that if someone says they are vegetarian it doesn't mean anything. Maybe it means they eat chicken if that's all there is. Maybe not. Maybe they eat dairy. Maybe not.
- V-2 9y ago> Vegetarians don't eat the flesh of animals, and it's always been like that. It's not so simple. "60% Of Vegans Would Try Lab-Grown Meat, Says Survey" https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/survey-says-over-half-of-vegans-would-try-lab-grown-meat https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/survey-says-over-half-of... It seems that vegetarians (or even vegans) object to the way meat is produced. Not to the idea of eating flesh as such.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoAs said above, I don't think anyone is confused except for you. Don't get me wrong, I think vegans and vegetarians can sometimes be annoyingly hypocritical and arbitrary, I think I see what you're trying to get at, but as for what constitutes a typical vegetarian diet I don't see why it's so hard to see the difference between milk and meat.
- csixty4 9y agoI'm one of those people. Most people know what a vegetarian is. A few know what a pescatarian is. Hardly anybody understands what an ovo-lacto vegetarian is. It's just way easier for me to say I'm vegetarian "but I eat fish sometimes". People get that.