• windowlicker [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    i was JUST asked at a recent gathering (that had only animal products for food) if i "still eat fish" and was met with shock when i said no. do people genuinely think fish aren't living beings or something?

    • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think "animals" means "meat"

      • Eris235 [undecided]
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        2 months ago

        A lot of languages also don't consider 'meat' to include 'fish meat', having entirely separate words for the two.

        but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms

        • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          when they think "animals", they think of the culinary category of meat. Not animal as in "animal, mineral, or vegetable". It's an overloaded word.