Vegetarian means NO FLESH. Fish are feeling animals, they sure ain't vegtables! Vegans eat NO flesh and no milk/eggs etc. Are you a feline-vegetarian if you only eat cats??? At best you could call yourself a pesco-vegetarian (which i find is a cop out)From the vegetarian Pages:
Vegan:
excludes animal flesh (meat, poultry, fish and seafood), animal products (eggs and dairy), and usually excludes honey and the wearing and use of animal products (leather, silk, wool, lanolin, gelatin...). The major vegan societies all disallow honey, but some vegans still use it. Some vegans also refuse to eat yeast products.
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Vegetarian:
Includes vegan, but usually implies one of the following:
Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian:
same as VEGAN, but also eats eggs and milk products. This is the most 'popular' form of Vegetarianism.
Ovo Vegetarian:
Same as VEGAN, but also eats eggs.
Lacto Vegetarian:
Same as VEGAN, but also eats milk products.
Vegetarians may or may not wear fur/leather/wool, depending on their own choices.
Pseudo-Vegetarian:
Claims to be vegetarian, but isn't. Often used by VEGETARIANS to describe SEMI-VEGETARIANs, and PESCETARIANs.
Pescetarian:
Same as VEGETARIAN, but also consumes fish. (often is a person avoiding factory-farming techniques...) See also PSEUDO-VEGETARIAN.
"The pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals."
---Dr. Donald Broom, professor of animal welfare, Cambridge University
Eating fish is bad for the fish, your health and bad for the environment:
What's wrong with fishing?
You do not need fish for your health. In fact they are quite bad for your health. Even the American Dietician Association (non veg assoc) supports the vegetarian diet. You CHOOSE to eat fish.
Meat contains no essential nutrients that cannot be obtained directly from plant sources.
None.
