What do you call people that eat fish but not meat?
Is it proper to identify people who eat fish but not meat as a class of vegetarians, or is there a better word to describe these group of people (who generally find pulses including beans, broad beans, chick peas, and lentils a perfect substitute for meat but deeply regret the fact that fish fats needed by the hunan body are not available elsewhere)?
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Vegetarians don't eat any animals including fish. Those who don't eat meat but fish are called pescetarians. For practical reasons, sometimes pescetarians say that they are vegetarians, as Joe says in his answer in this question:
I read something recently (might've been a blog, might've been some
online publication), explaining why the person called themselves a
vegetarian and yet would eat fish:
Because it was easier than explaining all of their can/can't eat items.
Many people aren't familiar with the term 'pescatarian', and if
someone invites you to a dinner party, it's easier to just say 'I'm a
vegetarian' than 'I'm a lacto-ovo pescetarian' and have to take the
time explaining what it means. If they prepare vegetarian food, you
can eat it ... they don't need to know the whole ontology of different
types of vegetarianism.
The word is pescetarian.
5 characters right here.
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