Every "vegetarian" I have met in the last year and a half eats fish or chicken. Waiters and waitresses in restaurants have offered me fish or chicken entrées when I asked if there were any vegetarian dishes on the menu. Putatively vegetarian soups are made with chicken broth. I even met one woman years ago who insisted that bacon became a vegetable after frying. Someone who eats fish but no other kinds of meat is a pescatarian, not a vegetarian. As far I can tell, the only word for someone who eats chicken and claims to be a vegetarian is liar.
Let's get something crystal clear: vegetarians do not eat dead animals. Period. That's what vegetarian means. Fish are not vegetables. Chickens are not vegetables. Pigs are not vegetables (nor is pork white meat, but that's grist for a different rant). If it has eyes and a brain, vegetarians don't eat it. If it has either an endo- or exo-skeleton, vegetarians don't eat it. If it has blood and a heart, vegetarians don't eat it. If it can run or creep or fly or swim or slither away from you, vegetarians don't eat it.
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I'm a GODetarian because all I eat are GODS. :) I would have so much to say on this that I better leave it with I agree with you 100.51%
You go girl!!! It's my frustration too. One of my coworkers eats fish, so I'm the "difficult" vegetarian who won't eat it. Too bad! :) Get me outta here!!!!!!!!
Liar may be a bit harsh. It can only be lying if they truely know the difference. If they do not, then they are uninformed at best, and stupid hypocrites at worst.
But yeah, that's pretty damned stupid! Almost like justifying not supersizing your fast food meal, because you're on a diet.
I find it hard to believe that there are people who don't know that chickens are not vegetables. Ignorant might be a more polite word, but I'm not entirely sure it's an accurate one.
Hmm. I'm reminded of the novel Cetaganda, by Lois McMaster Bujold. In one scene, Our Heroes are touring the local "garden show," on a planet where gene-sculpting is an art. Among the exhibits is a "kitten tree," where kittens are the fruit of the tree.
If a science fiction author can publish it, we're probably within a generation of actually doing it. Would the existence of, say, a chicken tree change anything?
Fred
Well...we don't have faster-than-light travel or Star-Trek-style matter transmission yet, so I don't have quite as much faith in science fiction authors. I don't think I would eat chickens from a tree. First, I find genetic manipulation at that level deeply disturbing; second, I think that it would result in a horrendous quality of life for both the tree and the chickens.
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