Talk to me about pescitarianism

It’s just a preference for me. I don’t like the texture of meat, but I don’t mind some types of fish and shellfish. I don’t usually put a label on it as it’s not part of my ‘identity’, it’s just a food like/dislike. I get what you’re saying OP, but for some of us it’s not that deep!

Yes this is my position as well.

It’s a preference for me, others nay bring ethics into it.

Nothing more to explain or understand and no-one’s business but mine what I eat and why.

The only pescatarian I know thinks it's ok to eat fish because they don't have a soul whereas other animals do!

FWIW, I agree, and I don't understand it either.

You're determined to have an argument and win it even if noone else is involved haha.

That is very fine! 😂 👏 👏

For me I don’t eat meat as I strongly dislike it - mainly for the texture, but do eat fish, occasionally.

Lots of people have given you reasons for pescatarianism other than simple ethical arguments about animal rights, so how is it that you still don't understand it?

And why are you continuing to misspell it?

Just to add i eat fish around once a month so its not a case of having it daily if thats what you are worried about. I dont eat other seafood.

I eat a pescetarian diet... I'm happy to be preached to by a vegetarian or vegan who is contributing to suffering less than myself, but preaching to pescetarians when you eat fish and seafood yourself is ridiculous.

Would you say that about people who eat meat but not fish? Because that covers a significant % of British people….

I am a chef and have been an omnivore for the majority of my life. Barring 11 years of stubborn vegetarianism from the age of 10 when I wanted to be different way back when.

I am currently cooking a metric fucktonne of meat at work and it’s put me off. So I am not eating meat but I am still eating fish and seafood.

For me, it is simple- I’ve gone off meat. But I have not gone off fish and seafood. Anyone looking any deeper into my diet than that has their own issues I’d say.

It is not something I discuss with people on the daily either so you’d probably never know.

i have tried octopus in the past but it’s not for me.

That's nonsense it could just be because they don't like meat but they like fish!
I know several people who eat fish and not meat they don't make a big deal of it. It's just what they like to eat. I don't see the problem.

And @SpringAndSunshineIsHere

Haven't you both missed out potted shrimp?

pescatarians are just like non-binary people to me. People who want to make themselves sound more interesting without having to put themselves out too much.

It's basically for people who agree with the lyrics to the Nirvana song 'something in the way'.

Apparently they do though. I just think a lot of people find fish easier to digest and meat too heavy. I could easily be pescatarian. If it wasn't for pork and chicken?!

I'm a pesce. I love fish and seafood and don't enjoy meat.

People can choose to eat what they want? Not sure how you're struggling.

I appreciate that we generally think of meat as different to fish, but this isn't helpful when it comes to understanding vegetarians. A vegetarian does not eat fish but because we generally do not think of it is as meat, some people think they do and will serve it up at a dinner party etc. This isn't helped by some people calling themselves a vegetarian but actually being pescetarian.

I also don't fully understand it, to me meat is flesh, the body of an animal. Fish fits into that category for me.

And I agree about the drinking example! I had a heated conversation with someone recently who said how only 'chavs' drank during the day (he was trying to be nasty about one of my friends who was at a BBQ or similar, and had posted a photo of him and his friend with a bottle of beer in his hand).

I said that I was pretty sure the aristocrats at the races with a glass of bubbly in their hands were not 'chavs'. What's the difference? And I am someone who rarely drinks alcohol during the day unless I am at a wedding or something, I just don't understand why one is okay and one isn't!

This is very 'playground' logic.

What do you think the animals omnivores eat, are fed on?

I'll give you a clue. It's roughly 80% of all vegetables/crops that encompass that 'number of insects' and 'small animals that die in the ploughing of the fields. No, the ethical stance isn't just about the consumption of the animal, but lack of consumption cuts down on all of those deaths.

I am not a genius by any stretch, but I don't find that so difficult to understand and if I did, a quick google would've clarified it for me.

I think for those who do it under the guise of caring about animal welfare, it is this.

I can see the logic, although it is flawed.

Cows/pigs have the same nervous system as us and aren't too dissimilar to us. Their faces don't look so different. They have legs, walk on land, breathe air, have ears and eyes in similar places etc.

Fish and other water-dwelling animals are very different to us in comparison.

You don't need to be looking at what's occurring in the world today, or a century ago, to work out that humans do not like differences.