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Zeus posted...

Revelation34 posted...

Zeus posted...

And, depending on your definition of meat, apparently fish isn't even considered meat.

There's only one definition of meat. The only people who claim fish isn't meat are people who want to pretend to be vegetarian.

Well, technically no. There's a long history of breaking the two up for some reason, and it's not just fake-vegetarians. To this day, you still articles comparing meat and fish despite the fact that intuitively you'd think they'd belong in the same category.

Not that I subscribe to the view myself, mind you. I'm just acknowledging the prevalence of the belief.

That's purely some Catholic Church nonsense relating to lent that has spilled over into the broader culture. Fish and seafood = meat, except to Catholics on fridays. They also consider beaver to be fish (and not meat). A beaver is not a fish, and even if it were, that's still meat. And that's not the only exception they have made. Capybara, alligator, manatee, puffin, goose, muskrat, guinea pig...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-upon-a-time-the-catholic-church-decided-that-beavers-were-fish/

Culinarily you treat fish different from other meat types, but that's true of any meat. You don't cook poultry like beef, nor do you cook scallops or cod like you would cook pork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Nutritional_information

look at that nutritional information of fish, a kind of meat
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