What Do You Call a Vegetarian Who Eats Fish?
I’m a vegetarian. I do not eat the flesh of animals. But there are many different dietary levels of people who choose to exclude any or all meat. There’s more than just vegan and vegetarian, and now you no longer have to say “Well, I’m almost a vegetarian, except I eat…”
Fruitarian - eats plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant; diet of only fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.
Macrobiotic diet - a lifestyle focusing on thoroughly chewing your food; mostly whole grains and beans; some are vegetarians, some consume fish; avoid processed food, coffee, sugar, etc.
Raw food / raw vegan - consume uncooked, unprocessed, fresh, organic food; food is not heated above a certain temperature; may be all or just a percentage of the whole diet
Freeganism - avoid consumerism and capitalism even for food; acquire needs through foraging, gardening; some might consume animal products that would otherwise go to waste, but most are vegan
Pescetarian - only animals consumed are seafood
Pollotarian - eats only animals that are fowl
Pesce-pollotarian - follows an organic lifestyle but eats fish and fowl
Flexitarian - diet consisting of primarily vegetarian food with occasional exceptions; a mostly vegetarian
So next time somebody says to the true vegetarian, “You don’t even eat fish?!” You can say, “If I did, I’d be a pescetarian.”
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May 30th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I’m a Pescetarian I only get fish I have my reasons but I will never eat a cow it’s different because Cows, etc are given drugs to get bigger thats wrong fish arn’t. I’m a Peta member because I can’t stand that..it’s wrong plus they are Mammals I wouldn’t eat my parents so why would I eat another being like me. Plus WWJD Jesus would eat fish I don’t think he would have eaten a cow!
December 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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December 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Sorry but real Vegetarians do not Eats Fish!
What Do You Call a Vegetarian Who Eats Fish?
You may call them Pescetarian but not vegetarian. When a certain type of food consumption (pattern) dominated than this characterized the name. Pescetarian should have been fish eaters. Divisions are only desirable within one and the same kind of food, such as fruit or leafy vegetables (both come from plants). Fish is another food category. We are omnivors. When you maintain the name pescetarian within the vegetarian consumption (pattern) there would also be a place for carnitarian (meat eater) and so vegetarianism loses its identity.
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