To ask why fish don't count?

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Okay, so I'm watching the island on catch up and I genuinely don't understand something. One of the guys is not happy that the rest of the group want to kill the pig for food. He says he is dead set against taking a life if it can be avoided...yet he is actively fishing, casting nets and eating fish.
I just don't understand and I've always been curious, why don't fish count? Do pescatarian's eat crab and squid etc as well as fish? Genuine genuine question, I just can't get my head around it

Because they haven't got an abacus?

Oh god, April, that properly made me laugh!

He is a fucking twat.

He has only been 'pescatarian' for 5 months.

He is the worst type of virtue signalling twat.

I came on to say that actually they can count up to 3 but no higher. But obviously that isn't what the OP meant!

They only have fins.. no fingers to count on

😂😂

What do you mean Flapatack, you haven't heard of fish fingers?

I've never understood this, I have several vegetarian friends who eat fish. I don't understand why fish aren't animals? I have more respect for vegans, at least they stick to solid principles even if it means never eating cheese.

Because they’re not cute.

I’ve been thinking the same thing

If you are so strongly against killing a living creature for food then how can you justify killing fish?

I had just popped in to say that it’s because by the time they get to 2 they’ve forgotten what they’re doing...

What's worse is that he then accidentally killed the pig anyway but they were still not allowed to eat it and had to give it a proper funeral.
Sorry rant over, he is a twat but I also want to know the answer to your question.

I think it’s more about how brutal it is. Killing a pig is a horrible business - I couldn’t do it, but I could catch a fish.

If you are so strongly against killing a living creature for food then how can you justify killing fish?

I've never understood it either. Fish don't even get a quick death, they suffocate on the deck of a boat. Not to mention all the bycatch that dies and just gets thrown back.

Because people are uninformed or wilfully ignorant.

And if you eat fish you aren’t a vegetarian, you’re a pescetarian

Barry the fish has fingers.

I don’t know, but not all vegetarians or pescatarians are eating that way for ‘ethical’ reasons. Quite a few just don’t like the taste or mouth feel of meat.

There is no difference. A life is a life.

In the wild you do what you need to do to survive,

This has always been a bugbear of mine. I've met many so many people who state they are vegetarian and then you find out that they eat fish. Why would fish be different to any other living animal? The last person I questioned just said 'well you have to draw the line somewhere'. Don't understand the mentality of it.

a relative said "its because fish dont feel pain" - i was

People can eat what they like. No need to be judgemental.

@coffeeshortbread oh yeah I know that. One of my colleagues is a vegetarian purely because she doesn't like the taste or texture of meat.

I have no issue with dietary choices, it's just something I don't understand re fish and meat.

The while episode really infuriated me! Why did the others agree to not eat the pig! Utterly bizarre.

For me it's because they aren't (usually) farmed. I can live with killing an animal for food, it's much worse in my opinion to keep them in cruel conditions for their whole lives. If I was going to give something up on ethical grounds, it would be dairy and not fish.

If people just don’t like meat then that’s their choice. If they just choose to eat fish that’s fine.

That’s not this guy though! He is very vocal about it being an ethical choice, and he is influencing others on the island (in supposedly a survival situation) to follow suit. They killed the pig accidentally and still didn’t eat it!