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> I’ve got many catholic relatives that describe themselves as vegetarians and eat fish Those are pescatarians. It's like how a tomato is a fruit, but it's us
by alwillis 6mo ago
> I’ve got many catholic relatives that describe themselves as vegetarians and eat fish
Those are pescatarians.
It's like how a tomato is a fruit, but it's used as a vegetable, meat has traditionally been the flesh of warm-blooded animals. Fish is the flesh of cold-blooded animals, making it meat but due to religious reasons it’s not considered meat.
- roxolotl 6mo agoRight exactly. The point is that dictionary definitions don’t always align with cultural ones.