posted by [identity profile] bennys-mum.livejournal.com at 12:59am on 30/12/2009
What is a pescetarian?
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 12:58pm on 30/12/2009
Someone who eats fish but not meat.
 
posted by [identity profile] bennys-mum.livejournal.com at 11:53pm on 04/01/2010
That's what I figured. thanks!
 
posted by [identity profile] tehomet.livejournal.com at 01:12pm on 30/12/2009
Like [livejournal.com profile] gillyp says, someone who consumes a mostly vegetarian diet but does eat fish. I think it's on the grounds that fish are different in some way from regular cows and sheep... I used to know a lady who was pescetarian back in the day on the grounds that cows and sheep are factory farmed but fishermen and women had to actually go 'hunt' the fish, although of course most fish are raised in fishfarms these days. I know another guy who eats fish on the grounds that they have a different nervous system than your average mammal and don't suffer as much, although as a vegetarian myself, I personally wouldn't like to be suffocated to death, as most fish are when they are caught. I do think that fishing is less environmentally unfriendly in terms of deforestation and methane production than the farming of cows and sheep, so I guess there is some kind of point there, although personally I wouldn't eat fish in a million years on ethics grounds and I think pescetarians are a bunch of fence-sitting wussies. :)
 
Yes. Only you put it more politely than I do.

There are also strong environmental reasons for not eating fish. Fish farms are highly damaging. Sea fish are hugely overfished - not to mention the polluting super-tankers that scoop every living thing they get close to including dolphins and don't get me started on whales.
Edited Date: 2009-12-30 01:20 pm (UTC)
 
Yeah that! though I love fish! :( I mean to eat...
 
posted by [identity profile] bennys-mum.livejournal.com at 11:59pm on 04/01/2010
I thought fish were whacked over the head... or does the suffocation happen by having them overcrowded on the boats?

I think farmed fish are sprayed with pesticides and such, so I think it pollutes quite a bit, and they're in their pens so tightly that there's a concentration of refuse. Not pleasant.

We have a couple goats and some chickens, but they're happy, and will have had pleasant lives at the end of them.

Yes, i find it strange to be selectively vegetarian. I prefer to eat meat, but make as many better choices about it as possible, including raising my own.
 
posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:56am on 05/01/2010
If you think about the thousands of fish ships scoop out of the ocean, how would they whack them on the head? No, they die slowly of suffocation.
 
posted by [identity profile] bennys-mum.livejournal.com at 11:01pm on 05/01/2010
I guess I'm just thinking of much smaller operations... that's disgusting!

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