do you consider fish a type of meat? [lent]

I have to agree with you completely. Meat is the muscle of an animal, which fish are almost entirely since they flex their entire body to swim, like a snake. It's extremely hypocritical making exceptions for a certain delicacy just because someone important to your religion enjoyed it. If they say no meat, it should be a ban on the entire food category. More for me. ^.^

I've never understood it either. Even as a little kid, when I would hear people saying they couldn't eat meat but they could eat fish, I would be like "What the heck??" Besides, I thought Jesus was a carpenter, not a fisherman? Or was he just the son of a carpenter? Unless you're counting the "fishers of men" thing as making him a fisherman? I'm glad my religion doesn't encourage me to eat fish, since it makes me ill. :P

I don't eat fish because I do look at it like meat. However my partner doesn't look at fish like meat. So when I cook he says he wants meat, when I say I have a can of tuna or something he claims that fish is not meat and he wants meat. So I give him soya nuggets and he is happily thinking he is eating chicken . LOL

I decided to be vegetarian many years ago and I am quite happy never to eat meat for the rest of my life but I found I could not give up fish. I do continue eating fish, so I can't strictly call myself vegetarian. It is a type of meat but is better for your health than red meat. So, if it has legs I don't eat it but if it has fins I can still enjoy it.

wel ya i do conside fish as a type of meat.. by the way, would u like to be my friend.. if so, we can chat more and make more money..

Being the friend that you "caught" eating fish... even though we've only ever eaten together once and I didn't have any type of meat that day what-so-ever that day... I have been completely open since before Lent started that I was giving up Beef and Poultry. Giving somthing up for Lent is about making a sacrifice in terms of discipline. When we are faced with that item/s it should cause us to thing about Christ's sacrifice. It's an act of remembrance. And oh ya... Jesus was the son of a carpenter. We are never told if he made anything himself, though he probably did. As for the fishermen... a lot of the disciples were. And Jesus did do several miracles with fish. Spent time in a boat fishing too. He even paid his taxes with one once. lol Happy Lenten Season People!!!

well yes, i think it is considered as a meat, though it is not "red meat". well, yes vegetarians not full pledged, also eat fish meat, and even in lenten season, people do eat meat too.

when Catholics give up meat for fridays and certain other days of abstinence during the year it is what we know as Flesh Meats - so while fish are indeed meat, most of them do not qualify as flesh meats. Flesh meat is considered meat from warm blooded animals, most fish are cold blooded so we can eat them - also turtles -snakes - insects (if we were so inclined) the reason for giving up flesh meat is not because Christ was a fisherman. But, because He gave up His flesh for us it is a small commemoration of His sacrifice by denying in some way our own flesh. This is why in many countries it is all Friday's of the Year plus a few of the vigils of holy days of obligation.

I myself do not consider fish as a meat. i grew up eating fish every Friday even though we were not catholic. I love lent because every where runs fish specials.

I do not consider fish a type of meat. Nor is shrimp, lobster, crabs, or anything else that lives in water. It is seafood. I guess maybe that is because I grew up not eating meat on Friday's during lent, but seafood was allowed.

It's not that I consider fish as meat,but it is meat. If you like to eat fish you can't claim you're a vegetarian unless you only eat their bones, and even so :)

I seriously have a hard time believing he could have coughed up sh*t like that, what a pathetic excuse. Jesus was the son of a carpenter, however some of his diciples were fishermen. Of course fish is meat, since it has been alive and as you say, muscles are meat.

in religion, fish is a kind of meat in my country. If you want to hold your religion, in the fast day, you must be far away with fish, meat of any kind of aninals...