RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to vegan@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoWhat is the worst "Vegan Option" you've ever been offered?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the worst "Vegan Option" you've ever been offered?RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to vegan@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarewindowlicker [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoi 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?
minus-squaremacerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
minus-squareEris235 [undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoA 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
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?
I think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
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