What makes a Vetetarian?

Yeah, they aren't vegetarians if they eat fish. You should correct them. They're looking for the word "pescatarian."

Nobody can *make* you eat something, unless they literally tie you down and force-feed it to you. I'm sure your parents didn't force-feed you turkey and fish.

Just politely decline. If they don't understand, talk to them about it. If they get stubborn, then YOU should get stubborn. It really is that simple. My parents don't agree with it, and they were stubborn about it at first, but I met them head-on and won because they wouldn't FORCE me to eat those things.

But unless they're forcing it down your throat, you are volunteering to eat it, in order to avoid whatever conflict might arise from your not eating it, and that's still your CHOICE.

 

I agree. No one can force you to eat it. I'm sure your parents have food other than meat. If not, it is VERY unhealthy, no one can survive on meat alone. Just eat the other things they make if you are so against eating the meat.

 

Pescatarians are omnivores, drumminmama. A pescatarian is a person who eats only fish meat. But there is a lot of bias in this community against omnivores, so it just seems less insulting to call them pescatarians.

The Buddha said, "every being has the Buddha nature," and similarly most everyone has some tendency to change to a more moral standpoint. All it takes is not meeting people head-on and being aggressive with it; like the Catholic Church. It just makes it distasteful for others to even consider.

 

sweetie, if you need some help in the kitchen, then check out the recipe forums & get yourself a good book. there are LOTS of books about starting out a veggie lifestyle. if you're old enough to be making these choices, then you're old enough to be making your own food.

 

well said. we don't want to be preachy and self-righteous here.

 

do vegetarian kids have any legal recourse against parents who 'force(i.e. serve lots of eat)'? I seriously hope it wouldnt go that far, but i'm curious if a court would force a family to cater to a vegetarian child.

 

Baring unusual allergies or such, I doubt it. If the child could convice the court that eating meat was harmful, then there might be something. Barring that, I can't see a court requiring a parent to cater to their child's preferances.

 

haha i got that too

theyre like 'but it's a holiday' ...what a joke

 

It doesn't matter why somebody eats meat, if they eat it, they are not vegetarians. Somebody could eat meat under the idea that they have some condition that makes them need meat. They still aren't vegetarians. Somebody could be a freegan and eat only meat that doesn't support cruelty. They still aren't vegetarians. "Vegetarian" has a specific meaning, and if you go against that meaning by eating meat, including fish and poultry, for any reason, you aren't a vegetarian.

 

your friend's right

then again there are pesca, and pollo 'vegetarians'.

Most Pesca vegetarians don't conscider fish animals, since there's something about the fish's flesh that's different from that of birds/landanimals.

I'm ovo-lacto vegetarian ( I don't consume milk directly though )