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Answer from Ina at Belsandia.com: Yes fish is considered meat. It is the flesh of sea animals, and for a while now it is proven that fish also feel pain and suffer when being caught and slaughtered, even if they don't scream.  Fish is not meat just like beef is not fish. If you read to the end of the first paragraph on the wikipedia articles it says that the word does not always include fish and poultry. MasterPython · 6 years ago. Thumbs up.  In nutritional science red meat is defined as any meat that has more myoglobin than a white meat, white meat being defined as non dark meat from chicken (excluding leg or thigh), or fish. Some meats, pork for example, are red meats using the nutritional definition and white meats using the common definition. Generally meat from mammals (for example cattle, horse meat, bull meat) and meat from from hunting (wild boars, deer, pigeons, partridges, quail and pheasant) excluding fish and insects are considered red meat. A: Chicken yes, fish no. The Catholic Church's abstinence laws consider that meat comes only from animals such as chickens, cattle or pigs-all of which live on land. Birds are also considered meat. Fish are a different category of animal.  fish is considered meat and Lexiss you are right people eat fish in lent but that is for a different reason and you can look in the bible for that and plus i am a priest. For the purposes of this article we will use a scientific assessment. Fish meat is from fish, a living animal. In fact, the meat is the majority of the fish. Fish swim, fish eat, fish digest, fish see, fish breathe, fish bleed, and fish live. Fish is considered a meat. Some might say that this conclusion is too simplistic Vegetarians do not eat fish, and consider that fish is meat, since it is the flesh of an animal. Vegans or strict vegetarians refrain from consuming any animal products, not only meat and fish but, in contrast to ovo-lacto vegetarians, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived substances. However, pescetarians eat fish and other seafood, but not mammals and birds. Seasonal religious prohibitions against eating meat do not usually include fish. For example, non-fish meat was forbidden during Lent and on all Fridays of the year in pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, but fish was permitted (as were eggs). Fish is consumed as a food by many species, including humans. It has been an important source of protein and other nutrients for humans throughout recorded history. In culinary and fishery contexts, the term fish can also include shellfish, such as molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms. Seasonal religious prohibitions against eating meat do not usually include fish. For example, non-fish meat was forbidden during Lent and on all Fridays of the year in pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, but fish was permitted (as were eggs). Fish is an animal, meat is the flesh of an animal. People who eat fish are not vegetarians, they are Pescetarians if … they eat no other animals or by-products of the slaughterhouse. You can argue the technicalities of the term, different dictionary's have different definitions, but in the end fish is not suitable for vegetarians (if that's what you were wondering). I'm not sure this question is actually on-topic for this site: clearly, from a culinary point of view, fish is considered to be meat. It's only from various cultural and religious points of view that fish are seen as some sort of exception to the flesh of animals definition. – Marti Sep 8 '14 at 18:03. I've heard one of the reasons fish is allowed on Fridays in Lent is because fish do not receive the breathe of life through their nostrils, meaning they are not considered living animals. Other cultures could have similar ideas.
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