It's only the Catholic Church rule that disqualifies fish as meat that alows piscivores to limbo under the bar and call themselves vegetarians. It's not that they consider fish to be vegetables, but they have that clause somwehere in the Bible about not eating anything with blood on the Sabbath, and of course fish blood is almost imperceptible.

To give you another example, they were not doing well recruiting Amazon Basin Indians to the Catholic Church so got a waiver from the Pope reclassifying capybaras as fish. Why? Yeah, they're furry and they bleed when you cut 'em, but they swim so they decided to just change the rule. It brought the Indians right into the churches.

I don't think they are classed as vegetarians. But I know there is a specific name for people who don't eat meat but do eat fish. And for the life of me I can't remeber it!

i consider myself a veggie but eat fish sumtimes

Strictly speaking, a vegetarian is someone who doesn't eat flesh of animals. And the purists will argue this is the only way to be. But there are certainly commonly accepted sub-categrories of vegetarianism in the books I've read about the subject...

PESCATARIAN is a vegetarian that eats fish/seafood, but no other meat products, POLLO-vegetarians eat chicken but no red meat or fish. LACTO-vegetarian eats dairy but no egg or meat. OVO-vegtarian eat eggs but no dairy or meat. LACTO/OVO...well, thats pretty obvious. And Vegans don't eat and meat or animal product. For the purist vegan it's a life style choice, and most often won't wear leather or use or eat anything at all that is derivative from animals including wool etc....

Phew, I'm exhausted ;-)

I've always defined vegetarian as someone who eats no animal flesh, this includes chicken, fish - all meat. There are different types of vegetarians - those who eat eggs/dairy and those who do not (vegan), but no flesh is consumed by a vegetarian.

A lot of fish-eaters call themselves vegetarians because they aren't aware that there's a word for people who eat only fish. I'm a pescatarian, which I think is the most commonly used word, but according to wikipedia, pescevegetarian and pesco-vegetarian are also acceptable. I sometimes tell people I am a vegetarian for simplicity's sake - if I don't feel like anyone present will particularly care whether or not I eat fish - but I don't really consider myself a vegetarian (yet). But it's really a pretty controversial topic and I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer as to whether you can eat fish and still be a vegetarian.

as far as i can tell, 'fish' isn't a vegetable, so eating fish does not make you a vegetarian (PETA.org)

I agree with Dragon. I do eat meat-therefore am not a vegetarian, but I do try to eat vegetarian meals as much as possible.

No....There not veggy.

I drink milk and eat eggs, so I'm a lacto-ovotarian and PROUD OF IT :)

NO. people who eat fish are not vegetarians. This annoys me so much.

it has a face so its meat

i think they are vegetarinas because when you buy fish from a grocery store it's not in da meat section. it's just fish by itself

Pescatarian

Fish are animals. Someone who eats fish is not a vegetarian; they are pescatarian. This is a good step towards becoming a veggie though.